web pages that help writers
thesaurus - https://www.wordhippo.com/
- Write Life - how to format a Manuscript: https://thewritelife.com/how-to-format-a-book/
- Character counter: https://www.lettercount.com/
- Scribens grammar check: https://www.scribens.com/
Books of interest
For writers and some others
- Writing Picture Books by Ann Whitford Paul
- A must read for anyone who wants to write picture books - and do the exercises.
- Steering the Craft by Ursula K. Le Guin
- Great thoughts from a master
- Wired For Story by Lisa Cron
- What a reader's brain wants from a story
- Writing With Pictures by Uri Shulevitz
- how to create picture books from the world renowned master - Uri Shulevitz author/illustrator of gorgeous picture books.
- It's a Bunny-Eat-Bunny World - by Olga Litowinsky
- a guide to the children's book publishing world
- Children's Writer's Word Book by writers digest books
- the right vocabulary for the right audience
- The Writer's Book of Hope by Ralph Keyes
- insight into the mind set of publishers
- The First Five Pages by Noah Lukeman
- the elements of good writing and what to avoid
- Self-Editing for Fiction Writers by Renni Browne and Dave King
- advice from professional editors
- 78 Reasons Why Your Book May Never Be Published and 14 Why It Just Might by Pat Walsh
- The reality of why some books get published and others don't
- Dear Genius - by Ursula Nordstrom
- The letters of Ursula Nordstrom, director of Harper's Department of Books for Boys and Girls from 1940 to 1973
- Understanding Comics and Making Comics by Scott McCloud
- visual story telling and the history of visual story telling
- A Short History of Progress by Ronald Wright
- the pitfalls of progress
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