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Pages tagged "resources for writers"

February 20, 2025

Resources

Books For Writers Books on writing recommended by members of the CFF Executive Committee. Recommendations thus far from: Margie Winslow (MW); Mauricio Matiz (MM); Tania Moore (TM); Richard Nochimson (RN). More...

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February 17, 2019

Three Online Resources For Fiction Writers

CFF member Edward Evans recommends this website featuring several authors' writing tips: Open Culture. The site's daily emails are frequently interesting too. CFF member Jennifer Kitses recommends this Literary Hub article...

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February 05, 2018

Jack Burger on How-To Books

The Long and the Short of How-To Books for the Writer - Three Examples Why read books about writing when you could actually be doing it? Maybe they have suggestions...

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June 11, 2016

Query Shark - an excellent resource

Janet Reid is an agent who will mercilessly tear apart query letters. Right now there are 277 queries (many revised several times) with her brutal honesty about what works and...

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August 10, 2015

Edith Wharton on Writing

The Writing of Fiction Edith Wharton Review by Ralph WhiteReading Edith Wharton’s book, The Writing of Fiction, enables the contemporary writer to visit the mind of one of the twentieth...

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March 02, 2014

How Fiction Works

How Fiction Works James WoodPicador, 2009 Mr. Woods’ book is used in the Writing Program at Columbia and its principles are frequently referred to in the deliberations of the Columbia...

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February 28, 2014

Self-Editing For Fiction Writers

Self-Editing for Fiction Writers Renni Browne and Dave KingWilliam Morrow, 2004 A Review by the Authors ThemselvesAmazon.com Review by Ralph WhiteThis is a verbatim handout in a clinic the authors...

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