These days it seems that everyone wants to be a writer.
Everyone has a book in them but no one know how to go about it.
On Thursday May 22, 2014, at 7:00pm, I’ll be teaching a class at Noble Library called “So You Want to Write a Story”.
I prepared this book list for that class but I couldn’t wait until May to share it with you.
The books listed below will not make you a New York Times Bestselling author, but they may help you finish your novel and perhaps even make a sale.
So You Want to be a Writer?
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- Accidental Genius: Revolutionize your Thinking through Private Writing by Mark Levy
- Breathing Life into your Characters: How to give your characters emotional and psychological depth by Rachel Friedman Ballon
- Deep Writing: 7 Principles That Bring Ideas to Life by Eric Maisel
- The First Five Pages: A Writer’s Guide to Staying Out of the Rejection Pile by Noah Lukeman
- If You Want to Write: A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit by Brenda Ueland
- Is Life like This?: A Guide to Writing your First Novel in Six Months by John Dufresne
- Janet Evanovich’s How I Write: Secrets of A Bestselling Author by Janet Evanovich
- The Liar’s Bible: A Handbook for Fiction Writers by Lawrence Block
- Literary Market Place: The Directory of the American Book Publishing Industry with Industry Yellow Pages edited by Information Today, Inc.
- On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (10th Anniversary Edition) by Stephen King
- Reading like A Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them by Francine Prose
- The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life by Julia Cameron
- So You Want to Write: How to Master the Craft of Fiction and the Personal Narrative by Marge Piercy and Ira Wood
- Supplies: A Troubleshooting Guide for Creative Difficulties by Julia Cameron
- This Year You Write your Novel by Walter Mosley
- What Would your Character Do?: Personality Quizzes for Analyzing your Characters by Eric Maisel
- Wired for Story: The Writer’s Guide to Using Brain Science to Hook Readers from the Very First Sentence by Lisa Cron
- Write Mind: 299 Things Writers Should Never Say to Themselves, (and What They Should Say Instead) by Eric Maisel
- The Writer’s Market: The Most Trusted Guide to Getting Published by Writer’s Digest Books
- A Writer’s Space: Make Room to Dream, to Work, to Write by Eric Maisel
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You can view another version of So You Want to be a Writer? book list.
(This post was last updated March 4, 2014 to add new information in the introduction.)
