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Writing Resources for Novelists

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Writing fiction is solitary painstaking work. We are fortunate to have some outstanding practitioners who have shared their knowledge with us and these are some books I highly recommend:

13 Ways of Looking at the Novel by Jane Smiley
The Art of Fiction by John Gardner
On Becoming a Novelist by John Gardner
What If? by Anne Bernays, et. al.
On Writing Well by Donald Hall
The Writers on Writing series
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This is an interesting list! I'd like to add a magazine that I've read--off and on--for years. It's Poets & Writers, and it covers a lot of writing-related subjects. I know it's available in some libraries, and they have a web site, too: http://www.pw.org
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Post by moderntimes »

Another fine book is Stephen King's "On Writing" which is especially valuable because it described the day to day process, in the trenches, so to say.

After a certain amount of time, however, there's not a lot that a book can teach you. Books on writing are helpful for newbie authors, but these things will only get you launched and provide valuable info for those getting started.

After you've written your first novel, I think that the info needed for this process should be pretty well embedded in the ol' brain. And sometimes, fledgling authors can find themselves caught in the planning process as a loop and never actually getting to the task of writing itself.
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I also enjoyed Elizabeth Berg's "Escaping into the open: The Art of Writing True". It is entertaining, filled with anecdotes, and tips.
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I am like most aspiring to be a publishd arthur and I am thankful for any help such as this. I have been writing since I was 16 and finally six years ago I really got seirous about it.
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