• PBs, MGs, YAs Handout {PDF} (Hey Tucson RWA buds, this is for YOU!)

• Business Planning Worksheet {PDF}

• Persona Poem {PDF}

• Three-Step Editing Checklist {PDF}

 

Good Books

• Writing Down the Bones by Natalie Goldberg

• On Writing by Stephen King

• Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott

• Writing the Breakout Novel by Donald Maass

• Self-Editing for Fiction Writers by Renni Browne and Dave King

• Dictionary of Problem Words and Expressions by Harry Shaw

• Save the Cat: The Last Book on Screenwriting You’ll Ever Need by Blake Snyder

• The Elements of Style by Strunk and White

 

Good Words

• Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind. — Rudyard Kipling

• How vain it is to sit down to write if you have not stood up to live. — Henry David Thoreau

• I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. — Thomas Jefferson

• Imagination is more important than knowledge. — Albert Einstein

• First, find out what your hero wants. Then just follow him. — Ray Bradbury

• There is no great writing, only great rewriting. — Justice Brandeis

• The words! I collected them in all shapes and sizes and hung them like bangles in my mind — Hortense Calisher