Creative Juice: Writing resources to get unstuck creatively
Art & Fear by Bayles and Orlando
The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron
The Art Spirit by Robert Henri
Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert
Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott
Escaping into the Open by Elizabeth Berg
From Where You Dream by Robert Olen Butler
On Writing by Stephen King
Listen to Me by Lynn Lauber
>Reading Like a Writer by Francine Prose
Story Matters by Denman and Shoup
Substance and Style by Mary Stoughton
Tell It Slant: Writing and Shaping Creative Nonfiction by Miller and Paola
The Passionate, Accurate Story by Carol Bly
The Power of Placeby Winifred Gallagher
The Situation and the Story by Vivian Gornick
Thinking about Memoir by Abigail Thomas
What If? by Painter and Bernays
Word Painting by Rebecca McClanahan
Writers Dreaming by Naomi Epel
Writing Fiction by Janet Burroway
Writing in General and the Short Story in Particular by Rust Hills
The Writer's Journey by Christopher Vogler
A Writer's Time by Kenneth Atchity
Writing Tools by Roy Peter Clark
Writing True by Perl and Schwartz
This page is always in process. I try to keep coming back here to update it from time to time, with current favorites. These are just a very few of the books I love, the books I find inspiring generally, and those that help me get unstuck—there are many more, too many to list here.
Please recommend your favorite creative resources to me by emailing:
mary(at) marycarrollmoore(dot)com. Thank you!