{"id":177,"date":"2011-09-27T22:57:50","date_gmt":"2011-09-27T12:57:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/?page_id=177"},"modified":"2014-07-06T17:13:42","modified_gmt":"2014-07-06T07:13:42","slug":"books-on-writing","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/?page_id=177","title":{"rendered":"Books on Writing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"top\" \/>\n<p id=\"top\" \/>There are a lot of books on writing. A lot! I&#8217;ve bought quite a few in my time, but not all of them have been particularly useful. I&#8217;ll list a few of the more helpful ones here.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Writing Fiction for Dummies\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dummies.com\/store\/product\/Writing-Fiction-For-Dummies.productCd-0470530707.html\" target=\"_blank\">Writing Fiction for Dummies<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I know, I know. This doesn&#8217;t bode well for my writing does it? Surprisingly I found this to be a good book, one of the few I read all the way through. I bought the\u00a0<a title=\"Amazon - Kindle version\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Writing-Fiction-For-Dummies-ebook\/dp\/B002XGICAO\/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1317126816&amp;sr=1-1\" target=\"_blank\">Kindle version<\/a>\u00a0(love the Kindle). Recommended.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"On Writing\" href=\"http:\/\/www.stephenking.com\/library\/nonfiction\/on_writing:_a_memoir_of_the_craft.html\" target=\"_blank\">On Writing\u00a0<\/a>by Stephen King<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>An excellent resource that I&#8217;ve heard a lot of other writers mention in podcasts etc. Part\u00a0discussion on the craft of writing, part auto-biography it is inspiring reading, especially for speculative fiction authors. Highly recommended.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Australian Writer's Marketplace Online\" href=\"http:\/\/www.awmonline.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Australian Writer&#8217;s Marketplace<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A directory for writers, containing details of:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<li>writing markets<\/li>\n<li>publishers<\/li>\n<li>agents<\/li>\n<li>publishing services<\/li>\n<li>writers&#8217; services (editors, manuscript appraisers, etc)<\/li>\n<li>industry organisations<\/li>\n<li>awards, competitions and grants<\/li>\n<li>courses and events<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It is a little academic when you&#8217;re just starting out, but worth looking at. It is good to get a feel for what kind of writing services are out there.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p id=\"top\"><\/p>\n<p id=\"top\"><\/p>Hi,\n<p>Welcome to Mark Webb&#8217;s author website. At this point the site is rather sparse &#8211; I&#8217;ve only recently started writing and there isn&#8217;t a lot to show for it right now. You can check out\u00a0<a title=\"All About Mark\" href=\"https:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/?page_id=11\">my biography<\/a>, see &hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":36,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-177","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=177"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2515,"href":"https:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/177\/revisions\/2515"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}