Recommended Reading for Aspiring Authors

Hi everyone! To kick off my blog, I thought it would be a great idea to share some great books to help with the writing process.

Below I've listed some of my top choices (in no particular order) for helping you improve your writing:

- The Writer's Journey: Mythic Structure for Writers by Christopher Vogler

- Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynne Truss

- Woe is I: The Grammarphobe's Guide to Better English in Plain English by Patricia T. O'Conner

- How I Write by Janet Evanovich with Ina Yalof

- Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within by Natalie Goldberg

- Structuring your Novel: From Basic Idea to Finished Manuscript by Robert C. Meredith and John D. Fitzgerald

- Characters, Emotions & Viewpoint: Techniques and Exercises for Crafting Dynamic Characters and Effective Viewpoints by Nancy Kress

- On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King

- Save the Cat!: The Last Book on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need by Blake Snyder

- The Art of Memoir by Mary Karr

- The Magic Words: Writing Great Books for Children and Young Adults by Cheryl B. Klein

- Write Away: One Novelists Approach to Fiction and the Writing Life by Elizabeth George

- The Anatomy of Story: 22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller by John Truby

- BT