Category: booklist
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My 2025 Reading Review
Being the last week of 2025, here’s a list of books I read this year. What books were your favorite this year?
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James Scott Bell on Writing: The Best Writing Advice I Know
I’ve been going back and looking at my blog entries from years ago, and I kept coming across advice from author James Scott Bell. I quote him a lot. Two books on writing craft I highly recommend are: He has more writing craft books on Amazon, and I just realized, “I need to read these.”…
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Some Books on Writing Craft
A book on fiction writing is ideal because you’re getting a course in writing at your fingertips. You can read or listen to the book at your own convenience. And best of all, you don’t have to take a final. Unless finishing your story is the final. Anyway, here are some books on the writing…
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I’m Putting a Little Variety in My Reading List
I am always trying to expand what genres I read. This next year requires an experiment in my reading. I am reading a book from each of the sub-lists that follow. I plan to go down the list and start over when I complete a circuit. I hope to get through each category twice. There will…
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Friday’s Findings: What I Read This Year
This has been a record breaking year for my reading. So far, I’ve read 62 books and will probably finish a couple more before the end of the year. In case you’re curious, you can peruse my list of the books I read (in the order I read them). Sorry I don’t have more critique…
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Friday’s Findings: Writing Instruction Booklist
I revisited my list of writing instruction books I’d like to read at some point in my life. These are books on writing I’ve never read before. I may not get to all of them, but I’d like to try. If you’ve read any of these, let me know what you think of them. Photo…
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Writing Instruction Books I Want to Read Again
In my last post, I pulled out a quote from a book called The First Five Pages by Noah Lukeman. It made me realize I haven’t read that book in many years. It also made me realize I wanted to read it again. Then I decided to make a list of books on writing instruction…
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Do you create an annual reading list?
Ugh. I only read 20 books last year. Yes, yes, I know. That’s probably more than a lot of people. But for me, that’s not a lot. For some reason, I didn’t feel as motivated to read. To me, reading regularly is essential if I’m going to be a writer. And I had several “to-read”…
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NaNoWriMo Day 30: Some resources to check out
No two writers approach their WIPs in the same way. Over the years, I’ve used a combination of the following methods to develop my stories. You may be familiar with some of them. Some of them may be new. I cherry pick parts from them and have created an amalgam of a fiction creating process…
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