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GENERAL WRITING TEXTS: Natalie Goldberg: guru on Creative Writing http://www.nataliegoldberg.com/ Goldberg's rules of Writing Practice at the start of her second book: http://books.google.com/books?id=RJVKg7UMJn8C&printsec=frontcove r&dq=wild+mind#v=onepage&q=&f=false WRiting Down the Bones - Goldberg's classic http://books.google.com/books?id=9v5ZOh3liu0C&printsec=frontcove r&dq=writing+down+the+bones#v=onepage&q=&f=false Julia Cameron's Basic tools of writing (best part of The Artist's Way). http://www.theartistsway.com/tools/the-basic-tools?f90a4dac66e2c e578e9b972a5d87c8bc=bff8b79fce6945b2d57d51082dbdcccf Writing starters... http://www.writersdigest.com/GeneralMenu/ PROSE/FICTION writing: Strunk and White's Elements of Style http://www.bartleby.com/141/ Orwell's "Politics and the English Language" http://mla.stanford.edu/Politics_&_English_language.pdf GRAMMAR BASICS: Writing Reference: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/ FICTION: - Atwood's Negotiating with the Dead (on Writing) http://books.google.com/books? id=jLbFlsKMIOQC&printsec=frontcover&dq=negotiating+with+the+dead#v=onepage&q=&f=false Stephen King's "On Writing" (great memoir and how-to book on Novel WRiting" http://books.google.com/books?id=d999Z2KbZJYC&dq=on+writing Frey's "How to Write a Damn Good Novel" http://books.google.com/books?id=M2LVQXnSV_AC&dq=how+to+write+a+damn+good+novel GETTING PUBLISHED: Canadian Writer's Market http://www.amazon.ca/gp/reader/0771085281/ref=sib_dp_pt/178-9403973-4550430#reader-link |