Books and Other Resources Recommended at This Years' Erma Bombeck Virtual Workshop

Books about Writing or Motivation 
Small Move, Big Change by Caroline L. Arnold
Mastering Suspense, Structure and Plot by Jane Cleland
The Writing Life by Anne Dillard
The Essential Guide to Getting Your Book Published by Arielle Eckstut and David Henry Sterry
Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert
Inside Story by Julia Goldberg
Freeing the Writer Within by Natalie Goldberg
Writing Down the Bones by Natalie Goldberg and Julie Cameron
Mojo: How to Get it, How to Keep it, How to Get it Back if You Lose It by Marshall Goldsmith
Story Trumps Structure by Steven James
Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott
Naked, Drunk and Writing by Adair Lara
Tell it Slant by Brenda Miller and Suzanne Paola
Comedy Writing Self- Taught by Gene Perret
The Byline Bible: Get Published in Five Weeks by Susan Shapiro

The Hero's Journey by Chris Vogler
On Writing Well by William Zinsser

Non-Fiction Essay/Memoir
A Year by the Sea by Joan Anderson
Fourth State of Matter by Joanne Beard (New Yorker article)
Giving up the Ghost Baby by Estelle Erasmus (essay)
Wishful Drinking by Carrie Fisher
You're Leaving When? by Annabelle Gurwitch
An Earlier Life by Brenda Miller
Halfway to Each Other by Susan Pohlman
Once More to the Lake by E.B. White (Essay)

Books to Read for Story Structure/Suspense
My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkar Braithwaite
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

Don't Let Go by Harlan Coben
Hollywood Homicide by Kellye Garrett
The Wife Between Us by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen
Ends With Us by Colleen Hoover

A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood

Saturday by Ian McEwan
Almost Missed You by Jessica Strawser

Books That Were Recommended But Are Not My Cup Of Tea Even Though They Were Widely Acclaimed and Possibly Won the Pulitzer 
Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert

Less by Andrew Sean Greer
Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larson

Movies That Came Up in Conversation

As Good As It Gets

Bridget Jones Diary

Bringing Up Baby

Elizabeth (with Cate Blanchett)
Emma

(500) Days of Summer

Genius
Girl Friday

High Fidelity

Notting Hill

Public Speaking

13 going on 30

Proposal

Serendipity

When Harry Met Sally

Books That People in the Workshop Wrote And Asked Me to Include on This List

Stardust: A Memoir (of sorts) About Fear, Freedom and Improv by Joanne Brokaw

Latkes for Santa Claus by Janie Emaus

Practice, Practice, Practice: This Psychiatrist's Life by Daniela Gitlin

A Dragon Song: An Allegory of a Life Half-Lived and Fully Processed So Far by Jill Brehm Enders

Whistleblower’s Guide to Family Court: How to Survive Custody and Visitation by Christine McCue

Why a Cat is Still Better Than A Man by Allia Zobel Nolan

Bookshop Owned by Erma-ite That We Should All Support

The Optimist

Etc:

Uber Suggest web site to look for trending words

Timed prompts to get you writing: @NaNoWordSprints on Twitter
Katrina Kittle's online courses with Word's Worth Writing Connections
Where to Submit: Duotrope
The Writing Cooperative
Narratively

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