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Writing Resources for Chicago Voices Community Created Performances

Want to write your own story or that of your community? Entering the Lyric Opera of Chicago's Chicago Voices Community Created Performances program? Check out these books about how to craft a great story.

Chicago Public Library

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  • Song-writing Without Boundaries

    Lyric Writing Exercises for Finding Your Voice

    Pattison, Pat
    PaperbackCincinnati, Ohio : Writer's Digest, c2011. — MT67.P3827 2011
  • No Plot? No Problem!

    a Low-stress, High-velocity Guide to Writing a Novel in 30 Days

    Baty, Chris
    PaperbackSan Francisco : Chronicle Books, c2004. — PN3365.B335 2004
  • The Screenwriter's Bible

    a Complete Guide to Writing, Formatting, and Selling Your Script

    Trottier, David
    BookLos Angeles : Silman-James Press, [2014]
  • Writing Better Lyrics

    the Essential Guide to Powerful Songwriting

    Pattison, Pat
    PaperbackCincinnati, Ohio : Writer's Digest Books, c2009. — MT67.P383 2009
  • Between You & Me

    Confessions of a Comma Queen

    Norris, Mary (Editor),
    BookNew York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2015] — PE1450.N67 2015
  • The Sense of Style

    the Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century

    Pinker, Steven, 1954-
    BookNew York : Viking, 2014. — PE1421.P56 2014
  • PaperbackNew York : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2015] — PS3561.A6929Z46 2015
  • Steering the Craft

    a Twenty-first Century Guide to Sailing the Sea of Story

    Le Guin, Ursula K., 1929-2018
    PaperbackBoston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015. — PN212.L44 2015