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Creative Writing: Introduction to Research

Use this guide to explore research strategies and resources for Creative Writing majors.

Authorship

Storycraft by Jack Hart
Call Number: PN3377.5 .R45 H37 2021
ISBN: 9780226318165
Publication Date: 2012-10-12
Wonderbook by Jeff VanderMeer; John Coulthart (Illustrator)
Call Number: PN3377.5 .F34 V36 2013
ISBN: 9781419704420
Publication Date: 2013-10-15
Write Great Fiction - Plot and Structure by James Scott Bell
Call Number: PN3378 .B44 2004
ISBN: 9781582972947
Publication Date: 2004-10-06
Writing for Others, Writing for Ourselves by Jerry Lanson
Call Number: PN171 .O55 L36 2011
ISBN: 9780742555341
Publication Date: 2011-01-16
Writing Stories by Carolyn Coman
Call Number: PE1404 .C57 2011
ISBN: 9781571108715
Publication Date: 2011-05-16

Techniques

20 Master Plots and How to Build Them by Ronald B. Tobias
Call Number: PN3378 .T62 1993
ISBN: 9780898795950
Publication Date: 1993-09-15
Behind the Short Story by Todd James Pierce; Ryan G. Van Cleave
Call Number: PN3373 .B43 2007
ISBN: 9780321117243
Publication Date: 2006-03-03
Growing Great Characters from the Ground Up by Martha Engber
Call Number: PN3383.C4 E53 2007
ISBN: 9780971534483
Publication Date: 2007-12-01
Tell It Slant by Brenda Miller; Suzanne Paola
Call Number: PE1408 .M548 2005
ISBN: 9780071444941
Publication Date: 2004-09-16
Writing Fiction by Janet Burroway; Elizabeth Stuckey-French; Ned Stuckey-French
Call Number: PN3355 .B87 2011
ISBN: 9780205750344
Publication Date: 2010-01-03

Market Guides

Children's Writer's and Illustrator's Market 2019 by Robert Lee Brewer (Editor)
Call Number: PN147.5 .C48 2019
ISBN: 9781440354403
Publication Date: 2018-10-16
Novel and Short Story Writer's Market 2017 by Rachel Randall (Editor)
Call Number: PN161 .N68 2016
ISBN: 9781440347757
Publication Date: 2016-09-14
Writer's Market 2020 by Robert Lee Brewer (Editor)
Call Number: PN161 .W83 2019
ISBN: 9781440301223
Publication Date: 2019-11-05

From Authors

Letters to a Young Writer by Colum McCann
Call Number: PN187.M36 L47 2017
ISBN: 9780399590801
Publication Date: 2017-04-04
Writing Picture Books by Ann Whitford Paul
Call Number: PE1408.P385 W75 2018
ISBN: 9781582975566
Publication Date: 2009-06-02
Zen in the Art of Writing by Ray Bradbury
Call Number: PS3503.R167 Z478 1996
ISBN: 9780553296341
Publication Date: 1992-03-01