The Teachers on My Bookshelf

This list is a an index of links to posts in which I study writing craft in my favorite books.

Anderson, Laurie Halse
     Chapters Move Characters Forward 
     Chapter and Going Far Enough 
     Chapters: Arcs and Complications 
     Chapters: Arcs Clumping Together
     Tension after the Climax

Baggot, Julianna

Bender, Aimee

Bradbury, Ray

Brashares, Ann
Chbosky, Stephen
Colbert, Brandy
     A Classroom Lesson

Cormier, Robert
DeLaPena, Matt
     What Makes YA YA?: Reading to Know You're Not Alone
Diaz, Junot
     What Makes YA YA?: End-of-the-World Love
DiCamillo, Kate

Dillard, Annie
Erskine, Katherine

Fitch, Janet
Foreman, Gayle
     Characters that Stay with You
Green, John
Hartman, Rachel
     Tension after the Climax
     Attraction
Hinton, S. E.
     What Makes YA YA?: Taking Action
Hubbard, Kirsten
     What Makes YA YA?: Going Elsewhere
Jacobson, Jennifer
King, A. S.
     On Having Something to Say

Kingston, Maxine Hong

L'Engle, Madeline
     What Makes YA YA?: End-of-the-World Love
Lin, Grace
Nelson, Jandy
     Complications, Plot Layers, and Subplots
     Overt Actions

     Going Far Enough
Niffenegger, Audrey

Oates, Joyce Carol

Plath, Sylvia
Reinhardt, Dana
     What Makes YA YA?: Pursuit of Truth
Rowell, Rainbow
     Tension after the Climax

Rowling, J. K.
     Finishing
Salinger, J.D.

Sebold, Alice 

Slater, Lauren
Smith, Andrew
     Tension after the Climax 

Spinelli, Jerry
Steifvater, Maggie

Strout, Elizabeth
Suma, Nova Ren

Tan, Amy
Taylor, Laini
Werlin, Nancy
Whaley, John Corey
     What Makes YA YA?: Angst

Whedon, Joss
     The Problem with Talking It Out
White, E. B.

Woodson, Jacqueline

Xinran

Zarr, Sara
     Starting with the Marrow 
     Structure as a Mobile
     Tension after the Climax 
     Threads