Resources & Teaching Tools
Workshop Philosophy:
I believe in encouraging writers to be prolific, to trust their instincts, and to grant themselves the right to be creative. Respect your efforts and your time. I seek to provide tools with which to explore ideas and writing techniques. And finally, I stress the value of editing. Cut those clichés out! Sharpen that dialogue. Find the right descriptive nugget. Be specific. Be daring.
Assorted (Mostly Modern) Fiction, including:
- Speaking with the Angel
, by Nick Hornby
- My Dream of You
, by Nuala O'Faiolain
- The Good Mother
, by Sue Miller
- The Crow Road
, by Iain Banks
- Timbuktu
, by Paul Auster
- The God of Small Things
, by Arundhati Roy
- The Reader
, by Bernard Schlink
- Lady Chatterley's Lover
, by D.H.Lawrence
- Billy Bathgate
, by E. L. Doctorow
- A Home at the End of the World
, by Michael Cunningham
- A Million Little Pieces
, by James Frey
- Old School
, by Tobias Wolff
- Three Junes
, by Julia Glass
A Few Books on Writing:
- The Elements of Style
, by Strunk and White
- Writing Down the Bones
and Wild Mind
, by Natalie Goldberg
- Bird by Bird
, by Anne Lamott
- What If?
, by Anne Bernays and Pamela Painter
- The Writer's Block
, by Jason Rekulak
- Writers on Writing
, ed. by The New York Times
- Lessons from a Lifetime of Writing:
, by David Morrell
- Revising Fiction
, by David Madden