Thursday Thirteen: Books a Wanna-Be Writer Needs
Thirteen great books that should be on the shelves of people who want to be writers:
2. A concordance so you can find what you’re looking for
3. A big, fat dictionary
4. A thesaurus that’s almost as fat
5. Strunk & White’s Elements of Style
6. William Zinsser’s On Writing Well, the 30th anniversary edition
7. Stephen King’s On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
8. Eudora Welty’s One Writer’s Beginnings
9. Zinsser’s Writing about Your Life: A Journey into the Past
10. Natalie Goldberg’s Writing Down the Bones
11. Jerry Jenkins’s Writing for the Soul
And then about a hundred wonderful books that you love, for example, these and/or many that are like the kinds of things you want to write:
12. Elie Wiesel’s Night
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