Edna Curry, Author

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My favorite References list

  BASIC REFERENCE BOOKS:

• WRITER'S MARKET (ANNUAL) This one also comes in a CD rom/ online edition and can be searched and sorted by various criteria which is nice.  Also you get access to its website for updates.

•    NOVEL AND SHORT STORY WRITERS' MARKET  

• HOW TO BE YOUR OWN LITERARY AGENT by Richard Curtis

•   FICTION WRITERS' SILENT PARTNER

•  GUIDE TO LITERARY AGENTS

•  MERRIAM WEBSTER'S COLLEGIATE DICTIONARY, TENTH EDITION (has dates of first usage of words, wonderful for historical writers.)

•  ROGET'S SUPER THESAURUS (second edition) by Marc McCutcheon

•  Reader's Digest's FAMILY WORD FINDER (1975, out of print.)

•  WHAT'S WHAT edited by Bragonier and Fisher

A few of MY Favorite Writing Books:

•  TECHNIQUES OF A SELLING WRITER by Dwight Swain;

•  and Swain's student's book on the same subject:

•  SCENE AND STRUCTURE by Jack Bickham (This is one of the The Writer's Digest "How to" series) All are good.

•  STORY: SUBSTANCE, STRUCTURE, STYLE AND THE PRINCIPLES OF SCREENWRITING by   Robert McKee

• THE WRITER'S JOURNEY by Christopher Vogler (2nd edition.)

• HOW TO WRITE A DAMN GOOD NOVEL (I & II) by James N. Frey

•  HOW TO TELL A STORY by Peter Rubie and Gary Provost

•  THE WEEKEND NOVELIST by Robert J. Ray

•  CREATING CHARACTERS by Dwight Swain

• FICTION IS FOLKS by Robert N. Peck

• CREATING UNFORGETTABLE CHARACTERS by Linda Seger

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• WRITING ROMANCE by Vanessa Grant

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• THE WORDSWORTH DICTIONARY OF CLICHE by Terry & David Freedman, 1996.

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• THE DREADED SYNOPSIS, order through her web site

                 <http://members.aol.com/ESinclair1/index.html> 

• Self-Editing for Fiction Writers by Renni Browne and Dave King, 1993

                 HarperCollins, ISBN 0-06-270061-8  

•   The Elements of Style by William Strunk and E.B.White, 1979 MacMillan

                Publishing, ISBN 0-02-418190-0  

• The Elements of Grammar by Margaret Shertzer, 1986 MacMillan Publishing, ISBN 0-02-015440-2

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• HOW TO WRITE A BLOCKBUSTER NOVEL by Al Zuckerman;

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• WRITING DOWN THE BONES by Natalie Goldberg;

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• THESAURUS OF ALTERNATIVES TO WORN-OUT WORDS AND PHRASES by Robert Hartwell

                Fiske, Writer's Digest Books. ISBN#0898796016

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