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Craft and Business Resources for Writers, Speakers, and Storytellers

October 2, 2023

This page has a list of relevant resources I’ve used, investigated, or have been recommended to me. Over time I intend to write reviews and expand on this, but primarily this is for personal use and to share with writing friends.

Websites and Podcasts

Jane Friedman (writing business)

Helping Writers Become Authors (craft resource)

Writer unboxed (craft resource)

Anne Janzer (craft and writing practice)

How to Write a Book Now (craft resource, synopsis, and archetypes)

Women Fiction Writing Association (WFWA)

Creative Law Center 

Savanah Gilbo (editing/beginning writers podcast – especially like first chapter reviews)

Writing excuses (podcast on craft and business from multiple viewpoints)

Creative Penn (podcast and website focusing on the business; recently covers a lot of AI)

The Shit No One Tells You About Writing (podcast covering query letter reviews)

Story Grid & Story Grid Editors

Ryan Holiday – I like his newsletter and some of his marketing

JJ Jonas – the 12 archetypes based on research

Books

Craft books I read but didn’t buy as reference

These may be good books, but they didn’t make the cut for one reason or another. It could be the book didn’t add much new insight or was similar to something I’d already purchased. Maybe I didn’t prefer the style, or it wasn’t relevant to me. Some were unique and relevant, but the information was absorbed in one reading (funds are limited after all and the library is free).

The Art of Writing, Yang

On Writing Well, Zinger

The Writer’s Process, Janzer (Reading)

The Craft of Scene Writing, Mercurio

Comic Book Lettering, Piekos

Show Don’t Tell, Gert

Coursera

Write your First Novel, MSU; Good with Words: Writing and Editing, UofM

Tried Writing Coach and The First Draft Club

Also looked at Pressfield’s site

Craft books I own

Scene & Structure, Bickham

Story Genius, Cron

Wired for Story, Cron

Techniques of the selling writer, Swain

Writing the Breakout Novel Workbook

Storywheel, Kucera

Understanding Show, Don’t Tell and really getting it, Hardy

Intuitive Editing, Yates Martin

Fiction Blurbs, the best page forward way, Ravencraft and Cohen

Dialog, McKee (on my to-be-read pile)

Story, McKee

The Anatomy of Story, Truby

The Emotion Thesaurus, McKerman & Pugilist

The Conflict Thesaurus, McKerman & Pugilist

The Emotional Wound Thesaurus, McKerman & Pugilist

The Negative Train Thesaurus, McKerman & Pugilist

Scrivener for Dummies

Save the Cat Writes a Novel

The Anatomy of Genre, Truby

Your First Page by Selgin

Books to be read or researched

Story Engineering and Story Physics, Brooks

Reference books on business and marketing

The Non-Designer’s Design Book, Wiliams

Website related tools

The Non-Designer’s Design Book, Williams

Canva

Unsplash

WPBeginner – WordPress website help

www.tinyjpg.com

Chatgpt and ChatAI – used for button verbiage on my website, SEO, and marketing aid

Other

Grammarly (free to pick up typing mistakes)

Pro Writing Aid

Sudowrite

Scrivener

Plottr

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