recommended reading
Below please find published articles on the Art of Storytelling process, as well as books and articles on writing and storytelling that I recommend to clients. For a look at work written by clients, please click the services link, and to read samples of my work, please go to bio.
I support independent bookstores. My favorite www.santorosbooks.com is located in Seattle. Owner Carol Santoro has hosted many public readings of new writers' work. Purchase books by phone from Santoro's, and Carol will mail them to you. Break the Amazon habit; we need the independent voices of small bookstores!
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Suggested books on writing and the creative process
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Yes, this journey is absolutely necessary, by Caroline Allen (click the title to order), a spiritual look at the journey from full-time worker to the life of an artist.
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Writing Fiction, A Guide to Narrative Craft, Janet Burroway, a book used in many graduate school creative writing programs.
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Writing as a Way of Healing, Louise de Salvo, great advice on how to handle writing about trauma
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Writing for Your Life, Deena Metzger
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Bird by Bird, Anne Lammott
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Writing Down the Bones, Natalie Goldberg
Fiction, Memoir, Short Stories, Poetry
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A Pale View of Hills and The Unconsoled, fiction by Kazuo Ishiguro
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The Road, fiction by Cormac McCarthy
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Nights at the Circus, magic realism fiction by Angela Carter
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Cool for You, fiction by Eileen Myles
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Blood Runs Like a River through my Dreams, by Nasdij
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Ghostwritten, fiction by David Mitchell
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Secret Life of Bees, fiction by Sue Monk Kidd
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The Things They Carried, short stories by Tim O'Brien
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The Runaway, short stories by Alice Munro
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Any short story collection by Ernest Hemingway
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Any short story collection by Chekhov
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The Year of Magical Thinking, memoir by Joan Didion
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Selected Poems, poetry by Mary Oliver
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Any poetry by Rumi, Sufi poet