RedBird-RedOak Writing

Another fabulous morning with the “Write ’til You’re Blue in the Face” group. Today we shared the titles of books that have inspired us on our writing journeys:

Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within, Natalie Goldberg

Globe Jotting: How to Write Extraordinary Travel Journals, Dave Fox

The Shipping News, E. Annie Proulx

(“…an amazing example of what writing can be!”)

Bird by Bird, Anne LaMott

On Writing, Stephen King

The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life, Julia Cameron

(a “lighter” version of The Artist’s Way tailored for writers)

The First Five Pages: A Writer’s Guide to Staying Out of the Rejection Pile, Noah Lukeman

Just uploaded an excerpt of my prose at the I Write Like website to learn that I (supposedly) write like Stephen King (ah, that I could sell/publish like him as well!) It sounds like the King comparison is a common one: according to the Huffington Post Margaret Atwood uploaded some of her own writing to find out that SHE writes like King, too! (Apparently, she doesn’t write like herself — even though she’s among the authors to which her writing was compared.) How ’bout this: upload some of your writing to the IWL site and see if YOU write like Margaret Atwood!