Showing posts with label Gail Carson Levine. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gail Carson Levine. Show all posts

04 January, 2012

Insecure Writer's Support Group: Learning To Write

The Insecure Writer's Support Group is hosted by Alex J. Cavanaugh. Be sure to check out his blog if you haven't already!


One of my 2012 goals was to improve how I well I write.

As I mentioned in that post, I've never read a book on writing itself--well, except for Gail Carson Levine's Writing Magic: Creating Stories That Fly and that was ages ago so I don't remember much of it.

Besides that forgotten book, the only thing I've read on writing is other blog posts; and lots and lots of fiction, if that qualifies. (I think it does; at least by reading the good and the bad you learn what works and what does not.)

And not to discount the great resource which is the blogosphere--there are some excellent posts on writing out there--I do think I could benefit from reading something formal on the subject that goes through all the details.

Do you have any suggestions on books about writing? Favorites, dislikes? And besides books, what other resources do you turn to?


-----The Golden Eagle