Library Research Guides: Creative Writing: Tools for Writers

Craft Books at the Library

On Writing by Stephen King
Call Number: Hood Library Main Stacks - 3rd Floor ; 813.54 K54o

Publication Date: 2000
A Little Book on Form by Robert Hass
Call Number: Hood Library Main Stacks - 3rd Floor ; 809.1 H353 2017

Publication Date: 2017
Negotiating with the Dead by Margaret Atwood
Call Number: Hood Library Main Stacks - 3rd Floor ; 808.3 A887n

Publication Date: 2003
Writing Creative Nonfiction by Philip Gerard (Editor)
Call Number: Hood Library Main Stacks - 3rd Floor ; 808.042 F698w

Publication Date: 2001

Oxford English Dictionary (OED)
Historical dictionary of the English language. Full text.

Microsoft Word's Immersive Reader
This setting, available in Word, removes the ribbon and gives you a more simplified drafting experience.
Obsidian
A free note-taking tool that allows you to visually create and view notes, images, and research.
Scrivener
Some long-form writers love this tool, which bills itself as a "typewriter, ring binder, and scrapbook." Requires a paid subscription.
Craft Talk
Substack from Jami Attenberg. Get an email each day during #1000words of summer with encouragement, commiseration, reading recs, and thoughts on creativity.

Vivid and Continuous: Essays and Exercises for Writing Fiction by John McNally
Call Number: Ebook: click link to access.

Publication Date: 2013
The Practice of Poetry by Robin Behn
Call Number: Hood Library Main Stacks - 3rd Floor ; 808.1 B419p

Publication Date: 1992