| Reference Desk |
| Reference Texts | Books on Craft |
| Oxford English Dictionary Any comprehensive dictionary |
Strunk & White, "The Elements of Style" |
| Roget's Thesaurus Any comprehensive thesaurus |
Stephen King, "On Writing" |
| NTC's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Exrpressions | John Gardner, "The Art of Fiction" |
| Writer's Market 2002 | (author)Self-Editing for the Fiction Writer |
| "Longman Language Activator" | Peter Rubie, The Elements of Storytelling |
| J.I. Rodale, "The Synonym Finder" | Ann Lamot, "Bird by Bird" |
| Karen Elizabeth Gordon, "The Well-Tempered Sentence; A Punctuation Handbook for the Innocent, the Eager, and the Doomed" | Natalie Goldberg, "Writing Down the Bones" |
| Karen Elizabeth Gordon, "The Transitive Vampire; The Ultimate Handbook of Grammar for the Innocent, the Eager, and the Doomed" | Robert McKee, "Story: Style, Stucture and Substance in Screenwriting" |
| MacMillan Visual Dictionary | William Noble, "The 28 Biggest Writing Blunders (and How to Avoid Them)" |
| World Atlas | Noah Lukeman, "The First Five Pages" |
| White Pages / Baby Name Book | Ann Bernay & Pamela Painter, "What If?" Writing Exercises for Fiction Writers" |
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