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Advice for Writers
BOOKS ON WRITING EXCELLENT BASIC TEXTS Carolyn Forché & Philip Gerard, WRITING CREATIVE NONFICTION: Instruction and Insights from the teachers of the Associated Writing Programs Julie Checkoway, CREATING FICTION: Instruction and Insights from teachers of the Associated Writing Programs David Jauss, WORDS OVERFLOWN BY STARS: Creative Writing Instruction and Insight from the Vermont College of Fine Arts M.F.A. Program Brenda Miller & Suzanne Paola, TELL IT SLANT: Writing and Shaping Creative Nonfiction Robert L. Root & Michael Steinberg, THE FOURTH GENRE: Contemporary Writers of/on Creative Nonfiction OTHER GENERAL BOOKS ON CREATIVE WRITING Robert Pack & Jay Parini (Eds.), WRITERS ON WRITING Brenda Ueland, IF YOU WANT TO WRITE: A Book About Art, Independence, and Spirit Willian Zinsser, ON WRITING WELL William Stafford, WRITING THE AUSTRALIAN CRAWL: Views on the Writer’s Vocation Will Blythe, WHY I WRITE: Thoughts on the Craft of Fiction Christopher Vogler, THE WRITER’S JOURNEY: Mythic Structure for Writers Anne Lamott, BIRD BY BIRD BOOKS ON MEMOIR WRITING Sue William Silverman, FEARLESS CONFESSIONS: A Writer’s Guide to Memoir Tristine Rainer, YOUR LIFE AS STORY Judith Barrington, WRITING THE MEMOIR: From Truth to Art Patricia Hampl, I COULD TELL YOU STORIES: Sojourns in the Land of Memory Lisa Dale Norton, SHIMMERING IMAGES: A Handy Little Guide to Writing Memoir William Zinsser, INVENTING THE TRUTH: The Art and Craft of Memoir Vivian Gornick, THE SITUATION AND THE STORY: The Art of Personal Narrative BOOKS ON ESSAY WRITING Phillip Lopate, THE ART OF THE PERSONAL ESSAY Joyce Carol Oates, THE BEST AMERICAN ESSAYS OF THE CENTURY John D’Agata, THE NEXT AMERICAN ESSAY BOOKS ON LITERARY JOURNALISM Jon Franklin, WRITING FOR STORY: Crafting Scenes of Dramatic Nonfiction Norman Sims & Mark Kramer (Eds.), LITERARY JOURNALISM Norman Sims, THE LITERARY JOURNALISTS Kevin Kerrane & Ben Yagoda, THE ART OF FACT: A Historical Anthology of Literary Journalism BOOKS ON FICTION WRITING Wallace Stegner, ON TEACHING AND WRITING FICTION Raymond Obstfeld, NOVELIST’S ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO CRAFTING SCENES Jesse Lee Kercheval, BUILDING FICTION: How to Develop Plot and Structure Ansen Dibell, PLOT James Moffet & Kenneth R. McElheny, POINTS OF VIEW John Gardner, THE ART OF FICTION Thaisa Frank & Dorothy Wall, FINDING YOUR WRITER’S VOICE Ursula LeGuin, STEERING THE CRAFT: Exercises and Discussions on Story Writing for the Lone Navigator or the Mutinous Crew BOOKS ON PUBLISHING Betsy Lerner, THE FOREST FOR THE TREES: An Editor’s Advice to Writers Susan Rabiner & Alfred Fortunato, THINKING LIKE YOUR EDITOR: How to Write Great Serious Nonfiction—and Get it Published Susan Page, THE SHORTEST DISTANCE BETWEEN YOU AND A PUBLISHED BOOK: 20 Steps to Success. Annik LaFarge, THE AUTHOR ONLINE: A Short Guide to Building Your Website, Whether You Do It Yourself (and you can!) or You Work With Pros |
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