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Recommended Reading: Although this course is quite comprehensive, I am often asked to recommend a book or two for future reference. Here are my top choices:
Writing Toward Home: Tales and Lessons to Find Your Way
* Writing Toward Home: Tales and Lessons to Find Your Way
by Georgia Heard
Heinemann, 1995. 146 pages.
The Elements of Style
* The Elements of Style
by William Strunk, Jr., and E.B. White
Allyn & Bacon, 2000. 105 pages.
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
* On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
by Stephen King
Pocket Books, 2000. 320 pages.
Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose
* Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose
by Flannery O'Connor, Sally Fitzgerald (ed.), and Robert Fitzgerald (ed.)
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1969. 256 pages.
Steering the Craft: Exercises and Discussions on Story Writing for the Lone Navigator or the Mutinous Crew
* Steering the Craft: Exercises and Discussions on Story Writing for the Lone Navigator or the Mutinous Crew
by Ursula K. Le Guin
Eighth Mountain Press, 1998. 173 pages.
Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
* Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
by Anne Lamott
Anchor Books, 1995. 239 pages.
Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You
* Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You
by Ray...