Writer's Life

Hambleton, Vicki.   So, You Wanna Be a Writer? How to Write, Get Published, and Maybe Even Make It Big!

A fresh and fun guide for aspiring young writers covers every aspect of writing and publishing from honing your writing skills and finding inspiration for stories to approaching publishers and getting published, and examines the genres of poetry, journalism, fiction, and nonfiction

 

Turabian, Kate L.   A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations

For close to sixty years Kate L. Turabian's Manual for Writers has offered comprehensive and detailed guidance to authors of research papers—term papers, theses, and dissertations.

   

Young, Sue.   Writing with Style

Presents tips for writing interesting stories, passionate essays, and exciting reports, focusing on the elements of sentence structure, paragraph organization, grammar, usage, punctuation, and footnotes.

 

Grant, Janet E.    The Young Person's Guide to Becoming a Writer

Provides information on identifying the writer within, creating three-dimensional characters, submitting a manuscript for publication, and other authorship issues.

 

 

Henderson, Kathy.   The Young Writer's Guide to Getting Published

Presents publishing information for the budding writer, including tips on preparing a manuscript for submission, advice from editors and addresses of publications and contests to which manuscripts may be sent.

     

Chesla, Elizabeth.   Write Better Essays in Just 20 Minutes a Day

The author shows ways to enhance your essay writing by thinking about the audience and topic of your essay as well as writing a well composed revised essay. 

 

 

McGinty, Sarah Myers.   The College Application Essay

The author “deals with issues of style and structure, as well as the writing process itself, breaking the essay down into parts and explaining each in excellent detail. A lengthy table listing essay questions asked by colleges is a helpful addition, but perhaps of even more use are the 11 essays McGinty includes for the purpose of demonstrating her points. Some general suggestions about choosing a college and establishing a timetable of what to do when will also be very helpful.” (Copyright 2000 Booklist Reviews)

 

Mirriam-Goldberg, Caryn, PhD.   Write Where You Are:  How to Use Writing to Make Sense of Your Life

As a teen, Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg found hope, insight, and strength through writing. Today, as a creative writing teacher, she helps her students explore the many benefits of writing. By putting pen to paper (or fingers to keyboard), you can express your true feelings, understand yourself better, create and re-create yourself, dream wide and deep, know you’re not alone, and feel more alive. (Back Cover)

        

Sebranek, Patrick.  Writers Inc.: Write for College, A Student Handbook

Contains information on the writing process, revising, proofreading, sentence structure, grammar, writing a college essay, resumes, reports, analytical writing, literary analysis, MLA and APA documentation style, note-taking, test taking, building a vocabulary, speech giving, punctuation, capitalization, spelling, weights and measures, the periodic table of the elements, world maps, and the U.S. Constitution.

 

Sebranek, Patrick, Dave Kemper, and Verne Meyer.   Write Source 2000: A Guide to Writing, Thinking and Learning

Provides advice and teaches skills in aspects of writing, thinking, researching, and learning.  

        

Strunk, William, Jr. & E.B. White.   The Elements of Style

Offers advice on improving writing skills and promoting a style marked by simplicity, orderliness, and sincerity.

 

Dunkleberger, Amy.   So You Want to be a Film or TV Screenwriter?

Describes the elements of screenwriting, presents examples of the three-act structure and the nontraditional form, discusses writing for television, and describes the working environment and salary of screenwriters.

 

Levine, Gail Carson.   Writing Magic: Creating Stories that Fly

Filled with inspirational advice and fun exercises, a Newbery Honor author shares her secrets and techniques for good writing by taking aspiring authors through the entire writing process, from getting ideas and writing dialogue to accepting criticism. 

 

Farrell, Tish.  Write Your Own Mystery Story

Explains how to create mystery stories, from crafting believable characters to creating intense plots, with examples from successful mystery books.                  

  

Farrell, Tish.   Write Your Own Fantasy Story

Explains how to create fantasy fiction, from crafting believable characters to creating intense plots, with examples from successful fantasy books.

 

        

Farrell, Tish.   Write Your Own Science Fiction Story

Explains what makes a story science fiction and describes how to craft believable characters, intense plots, and satisfying endings with examples from successful science fiction books.

    

Mlynowski, Sarah and Farrin Jacobs.  See Jane Write: A Girl's Guide to Writing Chick Lit

A guide to writing chick lit novels, including developing an idea, making the characters likeable, learning the basics of plotting, pacing, and conflict, and finding an agent.YA COLL 808.835 MLY

 

Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds.  How I Came to be a Writer

How I Came to Be a Writer is the story of one author's beginnings -- successes and failures, reviews and rejection slips -- things that mark the stages of a writer's life. Illustrated with photographs, and including samples of her earlier writing, this book will show you the inner workings of the writing process, from the spark of an idea to a book's actual publication.

This classic writer's memoir has been revised and updated to include material on the writing of the Newbery-winning Shiloh and its two sequels. J B NAYLOR NAY

 

May, 2009