(Part 3) Top products from r/writers

I'd recommend buying a book on writing.

I would suggest these as good places to start. If you wanted to pick just one on this list, I'd say go with James Scott Bell's Plot & Structure.

• Novelist's Essential Guide to Creating Plot by J. Madison Davis
  
  
• Novelist's Essential Guide to Crafting Scenes by Raymond Obstfeld
  
  
• Write Great Fiction - Dialogue by Gloria Kempton
  
  
• Write Great Fiction - Plot & Structure by James Scott Bell
  
  
• Write Great Fiction - Characters, Emotion & Viewpoint by Nancy Kress
  
  
• Write Great Fiction - Revision & Self-Editing by James Scott Bell
  
  
• Write Great Fiction - Description & Setting by Ron Rozelle
  
  
• The Rhetoric of Fiction by Wayne C. Booth
  

Figure out what kind of writer you are.

Are you a planner or a pantser (writing by the seat of your pants)?

Planner's love to write outlines before they get started. They plan every little detail and THEN write the story.

Pantsers are the opposite. They love to make things up as they go, but forcing a pantser to make an outline, and form the plot and all that stuff actually makes them less creative - and less likely to write the book. Conventional wisdom is that writers are supposed to write outlines before they get started, but that's not always true. Even George RR Martin said that when he writes a book, he's more like a pantser - knowing a few key plot points, but not everything before he writes it.

Read this book:
"How To Write Faster: Strategies for Planners and Pantsers."

https://www.amazon.com/How-Write-Faster-Strategies-Planners/product-reviews/1507729057/ref=cm_cr_dp_see_all_btm?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1&sortBy=recent

It's got a lot of great strategies on how to make a good plot outline, as well as how to write for your writing style.

OP, check out this one or this one. They both seem fun and age-appropriate to keep her inspired rather than bored. :)

http://www.amazon.com/Writing-10th-Anniversary-Memoir-Craft/dp/1439156816/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1419426548&sr=8-1&keywords=stephen+king+on+writing+a+memoir+of+the+craft

I hope you get some better answers.

This book is supposed to be the absolute final word on getting a literary agent, and it's updated every year:

Guide to Literary Agents 2017: The Most Trusted Guide to Getting Published (Market) https://www.amazon.com/dp/144034776X/ref=cm_sw_r_sms_c_api_wngMyb99CMXD1

I will be using it when I begin looking for an agent as well.

1. The Anatomy of Story by John Truby.
   
   
2. The Art of Fiction by John Gardner
   
   
3. A writing journal :)
   
   

You can improve your grammar and fix all these issues in about 60 days. That's it. Two months. Consider buying this book:

https://www.amazon.com/Elements-Style-William-Strunk-Jr/dp/1557427283

you mean like this?

https://www.amazon.com/Walking-Dinosaurs-Natural-Tim-Haines/dp/0789451875

Here it is

It is both, because once you have one it is not hard to make the other. I was able to get them both published within a matter of an hour or two. Then it took a couple of hours for amazon to process. It was challenging but ultimately not difficult.

You can see that in the two here, they are connected. The covers being different is because of some trouble I had with their system but I didn't mind.
https://www.amazon.com/Cordil-Saga-Bannerman-Book/dp/1520320019/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1491486678&sr=8-1&keywords=The+Cordil+Saga