BOOKS ON WRITING
Books on Writing
If you want to read some good books to help you unravel the secrets of writing, try these personal picks.
1. Ueland, Brenda. If You Want to Write. Saint Paul: Graywolf Press, 1987.
2. Goldberg, Natalie. Writing Down the Bones--Freeing the Writer Within. New York: Quality Paperback Book Club, 1991.
3. Ray, Robert J. The Weekend Novelist. New York: Dell Publishing, 1994.
4. Hunter, Lew. Lew Hunter's Screenwriting 434. New York: The Putnam Publishing Group, 1993.
5. Swain, Dwight V. Techniques of the Selling Writer. Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 1965.
6. Swain, Dwight V. Creating Characters--How to Build Story People. Cincinnati: Writer's Digest Books, 1990.
7. Dibell, Ansen. Plot. Cincinnati: Writer's Digest Books, 1988.
8. Tobias, Ronald B. 20 Master Plots (And How to Build Them). Cincinnati: Writer's Digest Books, 1993.
9. Pianka, Phyllis Taylor. How to Write Romances. Cincinnati: Writer's Digest Books, 1988.
10. Pool, Daniel. What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1993.
11. Krentz, Jayne Anne, Editor. Dangerous Men and Adventurous Women--Romance Writers on the Appeal of the Romance. New York: HarperPaperbacks, 1996.
12. Browne, Renni and King, Dave. Self-Editing for Fiction Writers. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, Inc., 1993.
