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Creative Writing Resources at CSUSM
Creative Writing Helps Bibliography as of March 2004

For further assistance contact Judith Downie, Humanities Librarian.

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GEW 101General Education Writing (Montagna)

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General
Character Development
Dialogue
Plot
Scene/Setting

 

CSUSM has books on creative writing. Do a catalog search on keywords such as Realism, realist writing, creative writing and follow the subject headings in each book's record to retrieve more.

Useful Subject Headings:
       Realism in literature
       Fiction--Technique
       Creative writing
       Characters and characteristics in literature.

Call Number areas:
       PN3355 (Creative Writing)
       PN3373 (Short Story Writing)

For more books or to find a copy if the CSUSM copy is checked out, remember to use the Circuit catalog option.

To find more, try Google searching the internet with your desired term (i.e., Character development) in double quotes and add the word TIPS or another word that describes what it is you are looking for in the way of help. Be careful as a lot of the hits will return writing tips on genres that you are not working with at this time, so also try adding genre terms such as REALISM to your search or other terms. Remember to limit to .edu or .org for better quality sites.

The following links are freely-available websites from which to pick and choose--it all depends on what help you need!

 

General

American Realism: 1865-1910 has a more historical view, useful for discussion of what realist writing is.

Creative Writing A mixed bag of links including sites on poetry, playscripts, editing and more.

Creative Writing: Fiction: Writing Tips Brief discussion of the parts of creative writing (plot, characters, setting, dialogue, point of view, theme and style.)

Kathy Ide's Writing Tips From a professional writing service, the tips are free.

Debbie Lee Wesselmann's Page for Writers and Readers From a professional writing service, these tips are free.

 

Character Development

Character Development Tips

Tips on Character Development from Mapletree Publishing

 

Dialogue

Writing Effective Dialogue

Dialogue Tips

 

Plot

Exciting Plot Writing

The Least You Should Know About Outlining Your Short Story

 

Scene/Setting

Scenes: The Building Blocks of Novels

Endings