READING LIST
TECHNICAL
The Oxford English Dictionary
The Elements of Style, Strunck & White
GETTING STARTED
Becoming A Writer, Dorothea Brande
The Artist's Way, Julia Cameron
on Creativity + THE WRITING PROCESS
the gift: creativity and the artist in the modern world, lewis hyde
bird by BIRD: some instructions on writing and life, anne lamott
On Writing, Stephen King
How To Write, Gertrude Stein
CREATIVE WRITING GUIDES
making shapely fiction, jerome stern, w.w. norton, 1991
The Art of Fiction, John Gardner. Vintage, New York, 1991
The Creative Writing Coursebook, Julia Bell & Paul Magrs
The Art of Fiction, David Lodge. Penguin, 1992
The Five-minute Writer: Exercise and Inspiration in Creative Writing in Five Minutes a Day, Margret Geraghty
Short Circuit: A Guide to the Art of the Short Story (Salt Guides for Readers and Writers), Vanessa Gebbie
first draft in 30 days, karen s wiesner
ABOUT THE NOVEL
Aspects of the Novel, E.M. Forster. Penguin Classic, 2005
13 Ways of Looking at the Novel, Jane Smiley
GETTING PUBLISHED
The Writers and Artists Yearbook
Writing a Novel and Getting Published, For Dummies, Green & Kramer
SCRIPT/SCREEN
Screenplay, Syd Field
Poetics, Aristotle
Story, Robert McKee
How To Write A Movie in 21 Days, Viki King
Raindance Writers' Lab: Write + Sell The Hot Screenplay
the hero with a thousand faces, joseph campbell
tv
how not to write a sitcom, marc blake
SHORT STORIES
Look at work by Raymond Carver, Ali Smith, Jackie Kay, Dave Eggers, Lydia Davis, Miranda July.
micro fiction, ed. jerome stern, w.w. norton, 1996
