Welcome to the mid-week! As prolific as so many of my friends are, I don’t have a new book to share with you this week. But I was contacted by a blog reader, Larry Dignan, who pointed me to an article he’d recently composed in which he compiled a list of 50 books for writers. The list is extensive, and many titles are familiar. Of course some of them I’m not endorsing, such as the intriguing but probably not-along-my-line-of-a-life-best-lived as Naked, Drunk and Writing, or the Communist Manifesto which I have read and didn’t see the literary value, but there are others I definitely would recommend, like Strunk and White’s classic The Elements of Style and Browne & King’s Self-Editing for Fiction Writers (two of my favorites).
The list is worth a peek.
Click here to see it, and happy reading to all of you out there who are like me and always interested in improving the craft of writing!
I was asked by Onlinecollegecourses to remove the link to this article, and have done so at their request. However, I still recommend The Elements of Style!
I checked out Self-Editing for Fiction Writers. Thank you for mentioning it! It has been a great help in a book that I wrote a few years ago, but have been struggling to edit!
So glad you liked it! That's a book I visit fairly regularly… 🙂 I hope it makes your revision more productive, it's certainly helped me with my own edits.