Elizabeth Sims, award winning mystery writer and Contributing Editor for the
Writers Digest, kicked off our April 16th meeting with a
presentation about writing fiction and the research needed to write
with authenticity and believability. Her great presentation was
followed by a Q and A session that ran right up to our 8:00 pm break
time. Elizabeth's presentation included free orange wrist power bands
emblazoned with the logo of her book “You've Got A Book in You”
for all attendees, and a free copy of the book to the lucky recipient
of a random drawing. With 18 attendees, 8 of whom were FWA members,
the meeting went quickly, and after a 10 minute break wrapped up with
readings by 3 members.
Our next meeting will be May 7th.
On Our
Bookshelves...
Favorite
books for Writers of the Sarasota Writers Group:
- On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft – Stephen King
- The Elements of Style – Strunk and White
- Bird by Bird – Anne Lamott
- Writing Down the Bones – Natalie Goldberg
- Eats, Shoots and Leaves – Lynne Truss
- The Right to Write – Julia Cameron
- The Forest for the Trees – Betsy Lerner
- Wild Mind – Natalie Goldberg
- Ron Carlson Writes a Story – Ron Carlson
- On Becoming a Novelist – John Gardner
- Storycraft – Jack Hart (U. of Chicago, 2011).
- Formatting and Submitting Your Manuscript – Cynthia Laufenberg
- Zen in the Art of Writing – Ray Bradbury
- Writing Tools: 50 Essential Strategies for Every Writer – Roy Peter Clark
- The Practical Writer's Guide – Mary A. Davries
- The Mother Tongue – Bill Bryson
- How to Write – Richard Rhodes
- Bryson's Dictionary of Troublesome Words – A Writer's Guide to Getting it Right – Bill Bryson
- Advice to Writers – Compiled by Jon Winokur
- Handbook of Effective Writing – Robert Moore
- Write it Right – Josephson – Hidden
- Techniques of the Selling Writer – Dwight Swain
- Simon and Schuster Quick Access Reference for Writers – Lynn Quitman Troyka
- The Writers Digest Guide to Manuscript Formats – Buchman & Groves
- A Room of One's Own – Virginia Woolf
- Writing in Style – Bobbie Christmas
- You've
Got a Book in You: A Stress-Free Guide to Writing the Book of Your
Dreams – Elizabeth Sims
- Things That Make Us [Sic] – Martha Brockenbrough
How
does our list differ from the Internet?
Take
a look at Infolist's current survey of the top 100 books at:
http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1714.Best_Books_on_Writing
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