- On Writing, Stephen King
- How Not To Write A Novel, Howard Mittelmark & Sandra Newman
- The Forest for the Trees: An Editor’s Advice to Writers, Betsy Lerner
- Writer’s Market
- Revision & Self-Editing, Bell
- The Writer’s Digest Guide to Query Letters, Burt-Thomas
- Thanks, But This Isn’t For Us, Jessica Page Morrell
- Characters & View Point, Orson Scott Card (Elements of Fiction Writing series)
- Description, Monica Wood (Elements of Fiction Writing series)
- To think on paper
- So the story will let you rest already
- Because the characters insist on it
- As a distraction from your real life
- To create yourself a better life
- To “taste life twice”
- To live vicariously
- Because beautiful words taste so good
- To give meaning to an experience
- Because you have no other choice
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