In the Writers Nook we want to help YOU be the best that YOU can be. We believe all of us have a writer locked inside waiting to get out. Support and encouragement are the cornerstones on which the Writers Nook Club is built. We hope our selections here help provide this for you. Be sure to visit our other Highly Recommended links to the left.

Bird by Bird Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott Encouraging, supportive, witty, entertaining, ...this is the book that inspired me to actually begin - to deal with my own fears and self-doubts - to actually write! If you're starting out or going through a dry spell, you'll find wonderful advice and help here. Someone all writers can relate to, to get the job done, or at least get rolling on it!	Writing Down the Bones Freeing the Writer Within by Natalie Goldberg The secret of creativity, Natalie Goldberg makes clear, is to subtract rules for writing, not add them. Proof that she knows what she is talking about is abundant in the speed, grace, accuracy, and simplicity of her own sentences. A splendid combination of Zen wisdom and down-to-earth advice about writing.	If You Can Talk, You Can Write by Joel Saltzman Saltzman delivers in a breezy tome designed to help you quit taking yourself too seriously yet be utterly true to your own voice at the same time. An excellent self-help book for people who are scared to death of writing. "...with diligence, time, and the right kinds of effort, just about anyone can be a writer."
	The Eric Maisel Collection Besides being a writer himself, Eric Maisel is a therapist with a practice centered around artists, writers and performers and has seen many of the demons that haunt the creative life firsthand.
Fearless Creating A Step-By-Step Guide to Starting and Completing Your Work of Art (Inner Workbook.) The blank page, empty canvas, or uncarved stone will often fill artists with dread. But so may the thought of finishing, showing or even selling their work. Maisel guides the reader, whether an experienced artist or someone just starting out, past the pitfalls that appear in each stage of creation.	Affirmations for Artists From the author: "...This book of affirmations is compiled with the special needs of artistic persons in mind. Arranged in alphabetical order by topic (Disbelief, Imitation, Talent), each page includes a handful of relevant quotations by writers, musicians, actors, or other creative people..." Great support for the beginner through to the advanced writer.	Deep Writing 7 Priniciples That Bring Ideas to Life Shows writers how to overcome psychological blocks in order to create with passion, power, and ease - yet it's so much more than this. Eric Maisel has done a wonderful job helping us writers do our own job. Way to go Eric! A Life in the Arts Practical Guidance and Inspiration for Creative and Performing Artists (Inner Work Book) How to understand our own frailties as artists, how to face, accept, AND overcome them. Click here to read more on this Eric Maisel Inner Workbook.