Hugo Roberts

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Website of writer/editor and web designer Hugo Roberts with his life story, literary awards, published prose and poems. This is the section writers' resources that includes the author's favorite books (this page) and sites. Most books in the bibliography are textbooks on writing (like Stephen King’s), but there are a few classics: Aristotle, Cervantes, Shakespeare, and F. Scott Fitzgerald. There are links to news by or about him, to a complete list of his prose, to his namesakes (other people named Hugo Roberts), where you can find out about your own namesakes and names, a page with new jokes every week, and to a contact page for questions or feedback. Also, you can click here to go to Easy Comments or scroll down to it and quickly post remarks, feedback, or questions. Please help the author find a lost copy of an article or request his services.
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Bibliography

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Aristotle. Poetics. Chicago: Gateway, 1961.
Auerbach, Jonathan. The Romance of Failure: First Person Fictions of Poe, Hawthorne, and James. Oxford University Press.
Baechtel, Mark. Shaping the Story: A Step-by-Step Guide to Writing Short Fiction. New York: Pearson/Longman, 2004.
Bell, Madison Smartt. Narrative Design: A Writer’s Guide to Structure. New York: Norton, 1997.
Bernays, Anne and Pamela Painter. What if? Writing Exercises for Fiction Writers. New York: Harper Collins, 1995
Bishop, Leonard. Dare to be a Great Writer. Cincinnati, OH: Writer’s Digest Books.
Block, Lawrence. Telling Lies for Fun and Profit.
Bly, Robert. Secrets of a Freelance Writer: How to Make $85,000 a Year.
Boggess, Louise. How to Write Short Stories that Sell, Cincinnati, OH: Writer’s Digest Books.
Booth, Wayne C. The Rhetoric of Fiction. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1961.
Brown, Rita Mae. Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writer’s Manual. New York: Bantam, 1988.
Burroway, Janet. Writing Fiction: A Guide to Narrative Craft, 5th edition.
Card, Orson Scott. Characters & Viewpoint. Writer's Digest Books, 1988 (F&W Publications)
Cassil, R. V. Writing Fiction. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1975.
Cervantes, Miguel de. Don Quixote. J. M. Cohen, trans. New York: Penguin, 1979.
Chiarella, Tom. Writing Dialogue. Story Press, 1998 (F&W Publications, Inc.).
Cheney, Theodore A. Rees. Getting the Words Right: How to Rewrite, Edit and Revise.
De Bono, Edward. How to Have Creative Ideas. London: Vermilion, 2007.
Edgerton, Les. Finding your Voice. Cincinnati, OH: Writer’s Digest Books, 2003.
Egri, Lajos. The Art of Creative Writing.
____________. The Art of Dramatic Writing. New York, NY: Touchstone, 1960 (1942).
Encarta Dictionary. Microsoft ® Encarta ® 2006. © 1993-2005 Microsoft Corporation.
Encarta Encyclopedia. Microsoft ® Encarta ® 2006. © 1993-2005 Microsoft Corporation. (Both are on DVD).
Estleman, Loren D. The Writer’s Digest Handbook of Novel Writing. Cincinnati, OH: Writer’s Digest Books.
Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby Ware, Hertfordshire: Wordsworth Editions Limited, 1993.
Foote, Horton. Tender Mercies (screenplay).
Forster, E. M. Aspects of the Novel. New York: Harcourt Brace & World, 1955.
Fryxell, David A. How to Write Fast (While Writing Well). Writer's Digest Books, 1992.
Gardner, John. The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writers.
____________. On Becoming a Novelist.
Gass, William. Fiction and the Figures of Life. Boston: Godine, Nonpareil Books, 1971.
Goldberg, Natalie. Wild Mind. New York, NY: Bantam Books, 1990.
____________. Writing Down the Bones. Boston, MA: Shambhala, 1986.
Gotham Writers' Workshop Faculty. Writing Fiction. New York, NY: Bloomsbury, 2003.
Hansen, Ron and Jim Shepard. You've Got to Read This. Perennial, 1994.
Hills, Rust. Writing in General and the Short Story in Particular. Houghton Mifflin
Hood, Ann. Creating Character Emotions. Story Press.
James, Henry. The Art of the Novel. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1962.
____________. Theory of Fiction: Henry James. James E. Miller, ed. Lincoln: University of Nebraska, 1972.
Joyce, James. Dubliners, revised edition. New York: Penguin, 1976. (Paperback).
Kaplan, David Michael. Revision: A Creative Approach…Cincinnati, OH: Story Press.
Kempton, Gloria. Writing Great Fiction: Dialogue. Writer's Digest Books (F&W Publications)
King, Stephen. On WritingNew York: Scribner, 2000.
Knight, Damon. Creating Short Fiction. New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 1997.
Kress, Nancy. Beginnings, Middles & Ends: How To Get Your Stories Off To A Roaring Start, Keep Them Tight And Crisp… Writer’s Digest Books, 1993.
____________. Characters, Emotion & Viewpoint. Writer’s Digest Books, 2005.
____________. Dynamic Characters. Writer's Digest Books, 1998 (F&W Publications).
Lamott, Anne. Bird by Bird. New York: Pantheon, 1994.
LaRocque, Paula. Book On Writing: The Ultimate Guide To Writing Well. Oak Park, IL: Marion Street Press, 2003.
____________. Championship Writing: 50 Ways To Improve Your Writing. Oak Park, IL: Marion Street Press, 2002.
Liddel, Robert. Some Principles of Fiction. London: Jonathan Cape, 1953.
Lubbock, Percy. The Craft of Fiction. New York: Viking, 1957.
Lukeman, Noah. The First Five Pages: A Writer's Guide to Staying out of the Rejection Pile. New York, NY: Fireside, 2000 (Simon & Schuster)
____________.The Plot Thickens: 8 Ways to Bring Fiction to Life. New York: St. Martin's Griffin.
Maass, Donald. Writing The Breakout Novel. Cincinnati: Writer’s Digest Books, 2001.
Macauley, Robie and George Lanning. Technique in Fiction.
McCutcheon, Marc. The Writer's Digest Sourcebook for Building Believable Characters. Writer's Digest Books, a division of F&W Publications, Inc., 1988.
McKee, Robert. Story.
Novakovich, Josip. Fiction Writer's Workshop. Story Press, a division of F&W Publications, Inc., 1995.
____________. Writing Fiction: Step By Step. Cincinnati: Story Press, 1998.
Obstfeld, Raymond. Fiction First Aid: Instant Remedies For Novels, Stories And Scripts. Cincinnati: Writer’s Digest Books. 2002.
O'Connor, Flannery. "The Nature and Aim of Fiction." Mystery and Manners. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1969.
O'Faolain, Sean. The Short Story. London: Collins, 1948.
Opie, Robyn. Show Don't Tell (this is a course).
Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary of Current English. A. S. Hornby. Sixth edition. Oxford University Press, 2000. (On CD).
Painter and Bernays. What if? Writing Exercises for Fiction Writers.
Payne, Lucile Vaughan. The Lively Art of Writing (3 vol.). Follet Publishing, 1982.
Perret, Gene. Comedy Writing Workbook. Studio City, CA: Players Press, 1994.
Roget’s Thesaurus (the–original–indexed version, not the dictionary version).
Rubie, Peter and Gary Provost. How to Tell a Story: The Secrets of Writing Captivating Tales. Writer's Digest Books, 1998.
Schmidt, Victoria. 45 Master Characters: Mythic Models for Creating Original Characters. Writer’s Digest Books, 2001.
Scholes, Robert and Robert Kellogg. The Nature of Narrative. New York: Oxford University Press, 1966.
Schorer, Mark. "Technique as Discovery." Hudson Review. Spring 1948. Reprinted in John Aldridge, Critiques and Essays on Modern Fiction (New York: Ronald Press, 1952) and in Mark Schorer, The World We Imagine (New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1968). Important essay on showing-telling distinction.
Seidman, Michael. Fiction: The Art and Craft of Writing and Getting Published.
The Complete Works of William.Shakespeare. London: Henry Pordes, 1993.
Strunk, William, and E. B. White. Elements of Style, fourth edition. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Pearson Education, 1999. (ISBN: 020530902X)
Surman Paley, Karen. I Writing. Southern Illinois Press.
Surmelian, Leon. Techniques of Fiction Writing: Measure and Madness. New York: Doubleday, Anchor Books, 1969.
Swain, Dwight V. Creating Characters: How To Build Story People. Cincinnati: Writer’s Digest Books, 1990.
____________. Techniques of the Selling Writer.
Tapply, William. The Elements of Mystery Fiction: Writing a Modern Whodunit. The Writer, Inc.
Thomas, Sam. Best American Screenplay series (Crown) (includes screenplays such as: Arthur, Citizen Kane, Bonnie and Clyde, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Miracle on 34th Street, My Man Godfrey, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre).
Tobias, Ronald. Theme & Strategy. Writer's Digest Books (F&W Publications), 1990.
Updike, John, and Katrina Kennison. Best American Short Stories of the Century. Boston, Massachusetts: Houghton Mifflin, 1999 (ISBN 0-395-84367-7).
Vargas Llosa, Mario. Letters to a Young Novelist.
Vorhaus, John. The Comic Toolbox: How to Be Funny Even If You’re Not.
Wood, Monica. Description. Writer's Digest Books, 1995
Writer's Digest Editors. The Writer's Digest Handbook of Novel Writing.
Zinsser, William. On Writing Well (second edition). Harper and Row.

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www.hugoroberts.com has the following features: links to writer’s resources (publishers, writing contests, courses, tips, etc.) and the possibility to play the
national anthems of Suriname, The Netherlands, the United States, and Nepal. There's a list of the author's work, of his namesakes (you can find out about
your own names and namesakes), and a link to news by or about him.
www.writerhugoroberts.com has the additional features: links to another writer’s resource--some of the author’s favorite books (most are on
writing). Also, every week there is a page with new jokes.
http://www.hugoroberts-writer-editor-webdesigner.com This site is home of the Webmaster and Webdesigner's Tools in addition to other pages, such as:
Hugo Roberts' Travels or go to flickr for photos and other images from Asia. It features the speaking character/virtual employee.
http://writerhugoroberts.blogspot.com. Offers an easy way to post comments/questions or discuss issues and displays a new Inspirational Quote every time you visit. You could read the latest news about computers and internet or look for a gadget, widget, or other program.
http://hugoroberts.blogspot.com/ also offers an easy way to post comments/questions or discuss issues and daily displays a new
Notable Shakespeare Quote. I also post some of my essays, columns, and articles here. You’ll also find Flight Status (airport arrival, departures,
etc.) Personal Travel Agent (book your own low cost flights), and Travel coupon/promo codes.

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