1. Story Engineering, by Larry Brooks

2. Story Physics, by Larry Brooks

3. 20 Master Plots, by Ronald B. Tobias

4. Write Your Novel In A Month, by Jeff Gerke

5. Make a Scene: Crafting a Powerful Story One Scene at a Time, by Jordan Rosenfeld

6. 45 Master Characters, Revised Edition: Mythic Models for Creating Original Characters, by Victoria Lynn Schmidt

Over and done

I am

Like sands

Washed away from the shore

Over and done

I am

Like pen

Its ink used til' the end

Over and done

I am

Like car

Whose gasoline ran out

Over and done

I am

Pretending

I haven't had enough

I am

Like a candle

I have melted

My way through

So over and done

I am

killing silently

muskets and raindrops to witness this death

the colonists should have known

that the redcoats were here

it was even said by Paul Revere

now they cry

tears staining the dirt

as the coffin is lowered

holding several pioneers

changed by fear

murdered by the hands of a gun

the sea was peppered with rust

the sky was soaked in saltwater

the skin of the earth was peeling

in great tidal waves of scaly flesh

and that was when I realized

the world is not going to end

it's only going to shed and burn

until there's nothing left

but a bed of coals to warm our hands