Writer's Bookshelf

 Adams, Carolyn Joy. The Power To Write.

Bauer, Marion Dane. What’s Your Story? New York: Clarion, 1992.

    Bayles, David, and Ted Orland. Art and Fear: Observations On the Perils (and Rewards) of     Artmaking.

            Baxter, Charles. Burning Down The House: Essays on Fiction. Saint Paul: Graywolf, 1997.

Bell, James Scott. Revision and Self-Editing.

Bickham, Jack M. Scene and Structure. 

Browne, Renni, and Dave King. Self-Editing for Fiction Writers. Ed. New York: Harper,

2004.

Burroway, Janet. Writing Fiction: A Guide to Narrative Craft. New York: Longman, 2003.

Butler, Robert Olen. From Where You Dream: The Process of Writing Fiction. New York, Grove P, 

            2005.

Cook, Lisa Leonard. The Mind of Your Story.

DeSalvo, Louise. The Art of Slow Writing: Relfections on Time, Craft, and Creativity. New York: St. Martins, 2014. 

Dillard, Annie. The Writing Life. 1989.  New York: Harper-Perennial, 1990.

Dufresne, John. The Lie That Tells A Truth: A Guide to Writing Fiction. New York: Norton, 2003.

 Fitzgerald, Sally and Robert, Eds. O’Connor, Flannery. Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose.

            New York: Farrar, 1969.

Forster, E.M. Aspects of the Novel. San Diego: Harcourt, 1955.

Goldberg, Bonni. Room to Write. New York: Penguin, 1996.

Goldberg, Natalie. Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within. Boston: Shambhala, 1986.

Hirsch, Edward. How To Read A Poem: and Fall in Love with Poetry. New York: Harcourt, 1999.

LaPlante, Alice. The Making of A Story.

 Lamott, Anne.   Bird By Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life. 1994. Pantheon. New York:

           Random, 1995.

Le Guin, Ursula K. Steering The Craft. Oregon: Eighth Mountain, 1988.

McEwen, Christian.  World Enough and Time: On Creativity and Slowing Down.New Hampshire" Bauhan, 2014. 

McKee, Robert. Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and The Principles of  Screenwriting. New York:

           HarperCollins, 1977.

Novakovich, Josip. Writing Fiction Step By Step.

Noble, William. Make That Scene: A Writer’s Guide to Setting, Mood and Atmosphere. 

           Middlebury: Eriksson, 1988.

Russo, Richard. “Location, Location, Location: Depicting Character Through Place."The Complete 

           Handbook of Novel Writing: Everything You need to Know About Creating and Selling Your 

           Work. Leder, Meg, and Jack Heffron, et al, eds.  Ohio: Writer’s Digest, 2002.

Pressfield, Steven.  The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles. New York. Black Irish Entertainment, 2002.

Shapiro, Dani.  Still Writing.

Sloane, Julia, ed. William Sloane. The Craft of Writing. New York: Norton, 1979.

Stegner, Lynn ed. and comp. Wallace Stegner On Teaching and Writing Fiction. NewYork: Penguin,

              2002.

Stein, Sol.  Stein on Writing.

Turchi, Peter. Maps of the Imagination: The Writer as Cartographer. San Antonio: Trinity University 

               Press, 2004.

Yagoda, Ben. The Sound on The Page. New York: HarperResource, 2004.

Zinsser, William, ed.  Worlds of Childhood; The Art and Craft of Writing For Children.

               New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1990.