Just like I don't believe in 'plumber's block' or 'plastic surgeon's block.' Writing is a job, just like any other job, and just like the plumber who may not feel like running that snake down the drain some days, but does it anyway and with no appreciable difference in the quality of his work, so does a writer write every day. Just like I don't believe in 'plumber's block' or 'plastic surgeon's block.' Writing is a job, just like any othe …more Don't believe there is such a thing. Unbelieveable, given the nature of the book.Les Edgerton Don't believe there is such a thing. It should be 'The Zero-Tolerance Approach to Punctuation' and that critical hyphen is MISSING in the book.

Oh, and I kind of liked Eats, Shoots & Leaves because I'm such a grammar nerd that I find apostrophe humor hilarious, but there's a GRAMMAR ERROR IN THE TITLE!!! What the heck were they thinking?!? Walter Mosley's This Year You Write Your Novel HAVEN'T FINISHED READING YET, BUT IT SEEMS PROMISING: Mur Lafferty's podcast I Should Be WritingĬathy Yardley's Will Write For Shoes: How to Write a Chick Lit Novel (specifically, this helped me write my synopsis)īlythe Camenson's Your Novel Proposal: From Creation to Contract : The Complete Guide to Writing Query Letters, Synopses and Proposals for Agents and Editors (no longer in print, was recommended by ) HOOKED: WRITE FICTION THAT GRABS READERS FROM PAGE ONE AND NEVER LETS THEM GO by Les EdgertonīETWEEN THE LINES: MASTER THE SUBTLE ELEMENTS OF FICTION WRITING BY Jessica MorrellĬhris Baty's No Plot? No Problem! (especially for NaNoWriMo participants)

IT'S A BUNNY EAT BUNNY WORLD by Olga Litowinsky (children's books)ĬOMPLETE IDIOT'S GUIDE TO PUBLISHING CHILDREN'S BOOKS by Harold UnderdownĪ NOVEL IN A YEAR: FROM FIRST PAGES TO LAST IN 52 WEEKS by Louise Doughty NOVEL SHORTCUTS: TEN TECHNIQUES THAT ENSURE A GREAT FIRST DRAFT by Laura Whitcomb THE COURAGE TO WRITE: HOW WRITERS TRANSCEND FEAR by Ralph Keyes SELF-EDITING FOR FICTION WRITERS by Renni Brown and Dave King By the way, as a former librarian, I encourage you to take advantage of interlibrary loan!Įssential (read these two before you send out your ms) >I've got a lot of favorites that I go back to over and over again.

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