web tools for writers
- Write Life - how to format a Manuscript: https://thewritelife.com/how-to-format-a-book/
- thesaurus - https://www.wordhippo.com
- Character counter: https://www.lettercount.com/
Books of interest
For writers
- Steering the Craft by Ursula K. Le Guin
- Great POV from a master.
- Wired For Story by Lisa Cron
- A neurological take on narrative forms. Narrative art and your brain.
- Writing Picture Books by Ann Whitford Paul
A must read for anyone who wants to write picture books - and do the exercises. - The Only Grammar Book You'll Ever Need by Susan Thurman
- A terse and pithy guide to grammar.
- 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.
- Story by Robert Mckee
- Written for script writers, but most of it applies to book writing also. Tons of great insights and covers "everything". First published in 1941. I think it is out a print now, and hard to get a copy, but it's well worth getting your hands on, if you can.
- 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.
- You Can Write a Mystery by Gillian Roberts
- Plotting and Writing Suspense Fiction by Patricia Highsmith
- A personal take from a master.
- 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 - a classic.
- 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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