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Improving your craft is done in many ways, and each writer has his or her
own way of doing so. However, since it is generally agreed that all writers
benefit from reading prolificly, we strongly suggest that you find these books
and read them if you haven't already.
The Elements of Style--Strunk and White
What If? Exercises for Fiction Writers--Anne Bernays
Writing The Breakout Novel--Donald Maass
Story--Robert McKee
The Writer's Journey--Christopher Vogler
How To Grow A Novel--Sol Stein
Finding Your Voice: How To Put Personality In Your Writing--Les Edgerton
Writing Fiction Step by Step--Josip Novakovich
The First Five Pages--Noah Lukeman
The Plot Thickens--Noah Lukeman
On Writing--Stephen King
The Artist's Way--Julia Cameron
Writing Down The Bones--Natalie Goldberg
Setting--Jack Bickham
Characters and Viewpoint--Orson Scott Card
Scene and Structure--Jack Bickham
Writing Clinic--Writer's Digest
Plot--Ansen Dibell
Conflict, Action, and Suspense--William Noble/Jack Heffron
Beginnings, Middles, and Ends--Nancy Kress
Dynamic Characters--Nancy Kress
Description--Monica Wood
Eats, Shoots, and Leaves--Lynne Truss
Show, Don't Tell--William Noble
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