recommended reading
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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
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Write Great Fiction Series:
Dialogue by Gloria Kempton
Revision and Self-Editing by James Scott Bell
Description and Setting by Ron Rozelle
Plot & Structure by James Scott Bell
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The Art of War for Writers by James Scott Bell
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
Art of Storytelling press