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There are lots of books out there for writers. In fact, at times it can be difficult to choose which are best for you. One thing you have to remember from the very start, as if you don't know this already, is almost every writer is a voracious reader. Books are one of the things every writer can put on their 'please get me' gift list. Almost all will be of help in one way or another. Some as reference, some as technique tips, others as educational. I recommend you take advantage when you can download the first couple of chapters to evaluate a book for yourself. And, of course, EBooks have the advantage of being even more portable. Until a much better 'reader' comes along (and they are coming-just check out my EBook publishing page), I've gotten myself a large capacity thumb drive that plugs into the USB. All my downloaded EBooks are on that drive. Makes it very portable and wherever there's a computer I can read. Works well with my laptop as well. And I know where all of my Ebooks are at! _______________________________________________________________ Not Exactly Books, but --- if you're a screenwriter you need to read scripts, lots of them. Try 
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Tidbit of Interest When we talk about books we just naturally talk about publishing - then self-publishing and the newest, e-books. There were famouth authors who took the self-publishing route - James Joyce, Beatrix Potter, Anais Nin, Mark Twain and e.e. Cummings to name a few. Wonder if they would put out editions in E-book format today? _________________________ Filbert Publishing and Writing Etc. offers E-books packed with helpful down-to-earth assistance and suggestions to really get a writing career up and running. Books like “101 Low Cost and No Cost Techniques to turbo charge Your Freelance Income” and “Jumpstart your Writing Career”. No book can tell you everything nor will everything in it work for you - that's just reality. But these books are grounded in sound advice and reading them will broaden your horizons and press your freelance writing career forward. Check it out today! Four years in the making. Information like none other. Over 101 battle-tested techniques to utterly turbo-charge your freelance income. Get all the juicy details Click Here!
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Author Holly Lisle at Holly Lisle.com offers some really great books to help the aspiring writer and already established author. "Create A Language Clinic" is one of her EBooks and is a fun help for the fantasy writer who wants to create a new world. 
--And you can download the first three chapters and check it out. She also offers her "Create A Character Clinic" (EBook or print version), "Vision The Writing Workshop" and more in addition to some of her own fiction. And, when you order from her site, she'll include, FREE, the download of her fun romp of a book, "Mugging the Muse." Go to her site now and check it out. 
Holly has published 30 novels and counting so she knows whereof she speaks. |
REFERENCE AND HELP If you think writing for TV could be your thing. If you're already hip deep in the process, or just beginning, read Larry Brody's Television Writing From the Inside Out. Larry is a great teacher with lots of experience in television under his belt. He's a writer and a producer; one who's had no small impact on helping to shape the industry. He's honest, imparting knowledge it could take the writer years to ferret out on his or her own. The book is a keeper, one you'll read more than once. The Naked Writer: A brand new style and composition book for new writers and old hands. Instructional book and useful reference for grammar, punctuation and contemporary style. Get yours today! Don't forget the writer's bible for submitting work to publishers, producers and agents, Writer's Market - Not long ago I read a book, a Screenwriter's Guide by Michael Lent titled Breakfast With Sharks. It's a book not about the craft of writng a screenplay, but rather a book about the business of managing a blossoming screenwriting career. It tells you clearly what to do once you've written that screenplay, how to get it in front of the people who need to see it. It really is full of helpful information for a screenwriter, beginning or already on the path. Determined Screenwriter? Check out A great book to help you determine whether that idea rolling around in your head is destined for film and how to predict what tomorrow's audiencees want to see. Grab yourself a copy of The Guilded Tongue. Use this book in two ways-simply pick it up and begin reading it anywhere-you'll find fascinating words on every page or look up a specific word or phrase to find its alternatives, pronunciation and the origin if it is known. Cool, beautiful, interesting, and bizarre words and even some you may have never known existed. Got a particular word in mind? Look up its definition in the "Reversicon" or reverse dictionary at the end of the book.
Need a little help getting going? Something to help break a block or cure boredom? Go check out Write Sparks. A downloadable software, it's great for generating story ideas, plot ideas and prompts for warm-up writing. You can download a free trial version that doesn't expire. Unfortunately it won't work on a Mac, just windows, but it is a fun program.
 | MORE BOOKS!!! Screenwriting is something a fair number of writers are interested in. It's a very tight, succinct type of writing. Screenwriting-On-The-Net offers a Free accelerated 7 part Screenwriting course. Additionally there's a lot of helpful information at the site and of course they have more items for sale. More interested in ghostwriting? It's a great and growing profession. The Essential Guide to Ghostwriting offers step by step instruction in the field. It's a full-fledged fleshed-out guide to getting into ghostwriting. Clearly written, it imparts plenty of information of you're considering ghostwriting as your career or juts a part of it. Not everything applies to everybody, but the information is sound. Everyone's Vocabulary could use a little help. And Vocabulary Vocabulary Booster gives more than a little. It's an Audio Book Mp3. It also somes with a money back guarantee. Into Screenwriting? Then here's a book you need. The Megahit Movies is specifically for screenwriters who who want to learn how to write the most commercial, money-making 'megahit' they can. It's informative and it's a good read.  Have Hypergraphia??? What??? That's what the good doctors have labled the over powering desire to write. What is this, a disease? Well, maybe, I'm sure we've all been there. Check out The Midnight Disease THE DRIVE TO WRITE, WRITER'S BLOCK, AND THE CREATIVE BRAIN. A fascinating work on the mind, the brain and creativity. This one's not really a book. It's well, a deck of cards. The Observation Deck to be precise. And it's been around a while. But that, far from making it irrevelent, makes it tried and true. While not every card applies to every individual ther are those who claim it's changed their lives. It's a true 'get up off your butt and write' sort of inspiration. Kind of like an I Ching for writers. It's great for yourself and great as a gift. Writer Trivia: And speaking of books, because that is, after all our subject, along with writers, here's some trivia for all us struggling writers. 1. Did you know CS Lewis sent more than 800 manuscripts before he made a sale? 2. How about Alex Haley who received 200 rejections before he hit it just right with Roots? 3. Zen and the Art of Motorcyucle Maintenance by Robert Persig was turned down by 121 different publishing houses. 4. Then there was e.e. cummings who dedicated The Enormous Room to the publishers who had rejected when he deicded to self publish it. Feel better now? |
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