Book Coach and Romance Author

RESOURCES

Over the years I came across many online and book resources that helped me along the way on my writing journey. I hope they will help you as well.

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Book on Writing Craft

K.M. Weiland "Creating Character Arcs"

Hallie Ephron "Writing and Selling Your Mystery Novel"

Lisa Cron Story Genius

Noah Lukeman "The First Five Pages"

Gwen Hayes "Romancing the Beat"

Jessica Brody "Save the Cat! Writes a Novel"

Karl Iglesias "Writing for emotional impact"

Mary Buckham "A Writer's Guide to Active Setting"

K.M. Weiland "Next Level Plot Structure"

Gail Carriger "The Heroine's Journey"

Jennifer Hilt "The Trope Thesaurus"

Cathy Yardley "Rock Your ..." series (plot, revisions, query, writing every day)

Puglisi and Ackerman "The Emotion Thesaurus: A Writer's Guide to Character Expression"

Jane Friedman "How to Publish Your Book" (her blog is great too)

Strunk and White "The Elements of Style"

Houston Howar "You're Gonna Need a Bigger Story"

Books On Writing

Stephen King "On Writing"

Anne Lamott "Bird by Bird"

Jennifer Probst "Write Naked"

Natalie Goldberg "Thunder and Lightning"

Sue Monk "Kidd Writing Creativity and Soul"

Books on Editing

Ainsley James "No Bad Drafts: A Revolutionary Approach to Healing Writer's Block and Freeing Your Voice"

Browne and King "Self-Editing for Fiction Writers"

Louise Harnby "Editing Fiction at Sentence Level"

Angela James "Edit Your Way: (Plot Twist: Forget the Writing “Rules")"

Books on Well-Being

Julia Cameron "The Artist's Way"

Olga Mecking "Niksen: Embracing the Dutch Art of Doing Nothing"

Kristin Neff, Christopher Germer "The Mindful Self-Compassion Workbook"

Kristin Neff "Self-Compassion"

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