Links to Creative Writing Prompts

• http://www.writingforward.com/writing-prompts/creative-writing-prompts/25-creative-writing-prompts
• http://www.languageisavirus.com/writing_prompts.html#.VQXHcOHZ7LV
• http://thinkwritten.com/365-creative-writing-prompts/

Links to Meditation Prompts

• http://www.buddhadordenma.org/meditation/additional.php
• http://www.thethriverworkbook.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=61&Itemid=87

Links to News About Authors and Books

• http://www.nytimes.com/pages/books/index.html
• http://authors.simonandschuster.com/
• http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/authors/
• http://www.pw.org/magazine
• http://www.pulitzer.org/
• http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/
• http://www.nationalbook.org/
• http://www.themanbookerprize.com/

Literary Craft Books

• How To Write A Sentence, Stanley Fish, ISBN 978-0061840548
• Elements of the Writing Craft, Robert Olmstead, ISBN 978-1884910296
• Zen In The Art Of Writing, Ray Bradbury, ISBN 978-055329634
• Dynamic Characters, Nancy Kress, ISBN 978-1582973197
• Writing Fiction, Janet Burroway, et al, ISBN 978-0321277367
• Make a Scene, Jordan E. Rosenfeld, ISBN 978-1582974798
• Line by Line, Claire Kehrwald Cook, ISBN 978-0395393918
• Sin and Syntax, Constance Hale, ISBN 978-0385346894

More Definitions of Craft Elements

• Narrative Technique: The way the writer drives the story forward.
• Mannered Writing: Drawing attention to yourself (showing off your writing skills) and away from the writing’s content.
• Emphasis: Focusing on a specific idea in a work.
• Irony: Meaning is given by emphasizing the opposite meaning.
• Inverted Sentence: Changing the order of the subject, verb and/or object in a sentence.
• Point of View: The perspective from which a piece of writing is told.
• Character: A person who exists in a piece of writing.
• Plot: The way in which the sequence of events in a story are connected.
• Setting: The location in which the piece of writing takes place, includes: cultural, terrain, and chronological aspects.
• Dialogue: A verbal or non-verbal between at least two characters.
• Style: The manner in which a story is expressed.
• Theme: The main topic(s) of a piece of writing.
• Motif: A symbolic element of significance to the story that is used repeatedly.
• Tone: The author’s attitude toward the piece of writing.
• Juxtaposition: Putting two things next to each other in a piece of writing to create a new meaning.
• Pacing: The speed at which events in a story happen.