Books, movies, and articles recommended or discussed in
Learn Writing with Uncle Jim
Books
Logical Chess: Move by Move
by Irving Chernev
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 11th Edition
The Chicago Manual of Style
Roget's International Thesaurus
The Unstrung Harp
by Edward Gorey
The Sun, the Moon, and the Stars
by Steven Brust
Misery
by Stephen King
China Mountain Zhang
by Maureen McHugh
On Writing
by Stephen King
Moonlight Becomes You
by Mary Higgins Clark
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
by Agatha Christie
Frankenstein
by Mary Shelley
Christine
by Stephen King
The Brothers Karamazov
by Fydor Dostoyevsky
Captains Courageous
by Rudyard Kipling
2010 Writers Market
(always get the most current edition)
The Maltese Falcon, The Thin Man, Red Harvest
by Dashiell Hammett
How Much for Just the Planet
by John M. Ford
1984
by George Orwell
Moby-Dick
by Herman Melville
All Quiet on the Western Front
by Erich Maria Remarque
Death in the Spirit House
by Craig Strete
Face in the Snow
by Ron Montana
Celtic Art
by George Bain
Ten Percent of Nothing
by Jim Fisher
Magic and Showmanship
by Henning Nelms
Cut and Assemble a Victorian Shingle-sided House
by Edmund V. Gillon, Jr.
Movies
sex, lies, and videotape
Sweeney Todd: In Concert
Minority Report
LA Confidential
Yojimbo
Last Man Standing
Miller's Crossing
Dark City
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
Doctor Faustus
Articles/Websites
Anglo-Scots folk ballads
The Bulwer-Lytton contest
Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses
The Haunted Author
I Am A Professional Writer
Turkey City Lexicon
The Sobering Saga of Myrtle the Manuscript
Standard manuscript format
The Miller's Tale
The Trojan Women
Turk's Head
"Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"
How Lucky Can You Get?
My Week as a Pod Person
3rd person
omniscient
Writing
Boing-Boing
Marketlist.com
Writing and Publishing 101
Writing Links and Links for Writers
story
My homepage
Chess quotes
Celtic Knotwork II
Circle of Magic
InArt 3
Mid-List Writer
Nihilistic Kid on Mid-List Writer
Discussion of that silly Salon article
Accidental Strength
Stouffer/Rowling
Plagiarism
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