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  Bill Yarrow

  Jul 12, 04:32pm

  Really useful as a writer's manual:

  Stanley Fish's "How to Write a Sentence"

  Also really helpful relating to things writerly:

  Scott McCloud's Understanding Comics and, even more so, Making Comics.

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  MaryAnne Kolton

  Jul 12, 05:14pm

  Bill, thanks for the suggestions. An editor who rejected a piece of mine kindly (?),yes kindly sent along a suggestion for "Self - Editing For Fiction Writers" by Renni Browne and Dave King. Am finding it quite helpful. . .

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  Jane Hammons

  Jul 13, 04:49pm

  Oh, I do love that book and kind of hate myself for it :) Not so much a fan of Fish's pedagogy, but this is a great book.

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  Bill Yarrow

  Jul 13, 05:42pm

  "Not so much a fan of Fish's pedagogy, but this is a great book."
  Yes, that's just what I felt!

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  Susan Gibb

  Jul 13, 06:49pm

  McCloud's book is a must read. It, like Calvino's "if on a winter's night, a traveler" taught me more about the elements of writing than any writer's manual.

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  Bill Yarrow

  Jul 14, 02:35am

  "McCloud's book... taught me more about the elements of writing than any writer's manual."
  Me too. Couldn't agree more. Mind blowing.
  I even use Understanding Comics in my intro to film class. I assign Making Comics in my creative writing class.

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