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Writing Reference: What's on your bookshelf?
LizW65:
--- Quote from: BobForPresident on July 17, 2009, 03:52:12 PM ---Trauma: A Writer's Guide to Injuries has been invaluable.
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Thanks for recommending this. I just found a copy on Abebooks for under 2 bucks and ordered it -- it sounds like just what I need (as opposed to asking my doctor things like, "Hey, what would happen if I pushed a guy down five flights of stairs?" and getting a very strange look in return.)
meg_evonne:
Self-editing for Fiction Writers.... Priceless
BobForPresident:
--- Quote from: LizW65 on July 17, 2009, 11:14:36 PM ---Thanks for recommending this. I just found a copy on Abebooks for under 2 bucks and ordered it -- it sounds like just what I need (as opposed to asking my doctor things like, "Hey, what would happen if I pushed a guy down five flights of stairs?" and getting a very strange look in return.)
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It also encourages you to discover creative ways to kill characters. For example, if you need a character to die of puncture wounds, it's much more interesting to have someone push them from a second-story balcony onto a wrought-iron fence then to find them with a knife sticking out of their back on the floor of the conservatory with Colonel Mustard. :)
RobJN:
--- Quote from: BobForPresident on July 18, 2009, 10:10:59 PM ---It also encourages you to discover creative ways to kill characters. For example, if you need a character to die of puncture wounds, it's much more interesting to have someone push them from a second-story balcony onto a wrought-iron fence then to find them with a knife sticking out of their back on the floor of the conservatory with Colonel Mustard. :)
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I was merely interested in this book upon glancing at the title.
Now I must own a copy.
RangerSG:
I have a plethora of resources on Biblical studies (my Masters lies in NT studies). Including grammars of Biblical Greek and Hebrew, theologies and commentaries on all the commonly accepted books, and the Apocrypha and other works, and a few books on the Septuagint. Then a bunch of cultural resources on the Biblical age.
For history I have Norman Davies' 1 volume histories on the Isles and Europe, Diarmaid McCullolloch's The Reformation, Latourette's two volume history of Christianity, Cantor's Civilization in the Middle Ages. The Rise and Fall of the House of Medici. Sanford's history of Japan. A one volume biography on Churchill and his own The Second World War.
General literature; The Complete works of Shakespeare, a 1 volume anthology of American Literature, Tennyson's Poetry, and a book of Celtic Myths and Legends.
For writing resources I have The Complete Guide to Writing Fantasy; a thesaurus, The American Heritage College Dictionary and my MLA manual to remind me of my English grammar. :P
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