tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5518122161715399657.post4701277911718751128..comments2023-08-06T10:03:00.038-05:00Comments on POSSIBLY IRRITATING ESSAYS: Where Writing, Christianity, and Speculative Fiction Interact : WRITING ADVICE – Kristine Kathryn Rusch #8: Recommended Reading ListGuyStewarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01268114053763665577noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5518122161715399657.post-85821377553552676722012-01-23T13:58:28.748-06:002012-01-23T13:58:28.748-06:00Great blog! I have several of the books you menti...Great blog! I have several of the books you mentioned and have benefited from them so far. A couple more I've found valuable:<br /><br />* Kress, Dynamic Characters<br />* Schmidt, Story Structure Architect<br />* Hein, Christian Mythmakers<br />* Veith, Reading Between the Lines<br />* Guroian, Tending the Heart of VirtueAhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14865607115402870492noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5518122161715399657.post-21700935581522159262012-01-22T10:00:33.037-06:002012-01-22T10:00:33.037-06:00I am not sure recommendations from those with noto...I am not sure recommendations from those with notoriety carry any weight with me. I will pick it up at the library if it is from someone I really respect and admire. Recommendations from friends and family take far more of my interest :D. Personal writing journeys are very... well, personal. Different books spark different epiphanies in different people at different times. <br /><br />I like the Beginnings, Middles, Ends book. Also from that series, Plot, by Anson Dibble. Books that came to me at the most perfect time and moved me along in my path: The Portable MFA by the New York Writer's Group, Fiction First-Aid by Raymond Ostfeld, Poetry Home Repair Manual by Ted Kooser, and (part of) From Where You Dream by Robert Olen Butler. <br /><br />The books that help my writing most aren't books about writing. Mostly they are other works of fiction and poetry. This year, War Dances by Sherman Alexie and Karen Russell's two books ( though, I think both books have problems, they are wonderful) pushed me in ways text books just can't. <br /><br />good blog :)Leah Mooneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16909153284881543419noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5518122161715399657.post-41977718157568654502012-01-22T08:31:07.333-06:002012-01-22T08:31:07.333-06:00Wow, I was really surprised to see Thomas Covenant...Wow, I was really surprised to see Thomas Covenant on there. Although I enjoyed two other books by Donaldson (The Mirror of Her Dreams & A Man Rides Through), the Covenant series made me so angry that I was tempted to burn the last book when it finally came out! My husband and I were reading them as they came out and we hung in their with a main character that we felt was unlikable scum, because we thought there was going to be some sort of satisfying payoff at the end--but there wasn't. I will give you the originality claim though!Linda Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06256609816116022592noreply@blogger.com