Writing Articles:

• Don't Tell Me What You're Going to Tell Me

• Balancing Act ~ Juggling Fiction and Nonfiction

• Confessions of a Contest Junkie

• Interview with Award-winning Author Norah Wilson

Writing Books:

• Telling Lies for Fun and Profit by Lawrence Block ~ A compilation of  Block’s Writer’s Digest fiction-writing columns, this was the first book on writing I read--and the one made me feel that maybe, just maybe, I could do it too.
   
• The Weekend Novelist Writes A Mystery by Robert J. Ray and Jack Remick ~ I could do without all the blood sacrifice and death crone references, but I keep coming back to the sections on building the crime scene and use "scene building" in all my stories. Text for the Writers Village University mystery course.
   
• Stein on Writing by Sol Stein ~ A good place to start for both fiction and nonfiction.
   
• Writing the Breakout Novel by Donald Maass ~ For more advanced writers, more of a guide book than a "how-to" book. I haven't used the companion workbook yet, but I plan to test drive it soon.