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 Posted: Sun May 18, 2008 4:00 pm Post subject: How Do I Learn To Write? |
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How Do I Learn to Write?
Collection courtesy of Terry McGarry
Sentence-by-sentence writing improvement:
* Line by Line: How to Edit Your Own Writing, Claire Kehrwald Cook,Houghton Mifflin
* A Dictionary of Modern English Usage, William Fowler, Oxford Univ. Press
* The Careful Writer, Theodore M. Bernstein, Atheneum
* The Practical Stylist, Sheridan Baker, Harper & Row
* The Transitive Vampire: A Handbook of Grammar for the Innocent, the Eager, and the Doomed, Karen Elizabeth Gordon, Times Books (also The Well-Tempered Sentence by her)
* The Elements of Style, Strunk & White
Writing better fiction:
* Beginnings, Middles, and Ends, Nancy Kress, Writer's Digest Books
* Creating Short Fiction, Damon Knight, St. Martin's
* On Becoming a Novelist, John Gardner, Harper & Row
* The Art of Creative Writing, Lajos Egri (may be OOP)
* Techniques of the Selling Writer, Dwight V. Swain
* Science Fiction Writers Workshop I: An Introduction to Fiction Mechanics, Barry B. Longyear
* How to Write a Damn Good Novel II,James N. Frey. St. Martins 1994, ISBN 0-312-10478-2
* Characters and Viewpoint, Orson Scott Card
Writing better speculative fiction:
* The Craft of Science Fiction, Reginald Bretnor
* Those Who Can, ed. Robin Scott Wilson (recently reprinted)
* Paragons, ed. Robin Scott Wilson
* How to Write Science Fiction and Fantasy, Orson Scott Card, Writer's Digest Books
* Writing Science Fiction and Fantasy, editors of Analog and Asimov's
* Aliens and Alien Societies, ed. Ben Bova, Writer's Digest Books
* Creating the Heavens, Melissa Scott, Heinemann
Style manuals (cover grammar, punctuation, usage, treatment of names and terms, editing stages, book production):
* The Chicago Manual of Style, University of Chicago
* Words into Type, Prentice Hall
* A Manual of Style (U.S. Govt Printing Office), Gramercy
* The New York Times Manual of Style and Usage
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