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Recommended Reading
Like artists, potters, jewelers, musicians or anyone else in the arts, novelists must achieve mastery over their tools, specifically words and their arrangement. There are so many books out now about writing, it's difficult to know where to start. Barbara Sloan believes the books listed on this page are the best of them all and will provide a solid frame of reference in most if not all the nuances involved in crafting good fiction.
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Writing Technique Essentials, alphabetized by author
- Becoming a Writer by Dorothea Brande
- Blueprint for Writing by Rachel Ballon
- The Craft of Novel Writing by Dianne Doubtfire
- How to Write a Damn Good Novel by James N. Frey
- Writing a Book that makes a Difference by Philip Gerard
- The First Five Pages by Noah Lukeman
- The Plot Thickens by Noah Lukeman
- The Novel Writer's Toolkit by Bob Mayer
- Make Every Word Count by Gary Provost
- The Craft of Writing by William Sloane
- How to Grow a Novel by Sol Stein
- Stein on Writing by Sol Stein
- Making Shapely Fiction by Jerome Stern
- Writing with Style by John R. Trimble
- If You Want to Write by Brenda Ueland
- On Writing Well by William Zinsser
- Writing to Learn by William Zinsser
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Reference Essentials
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