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To: SmoothSail who wrote (2046)	10/17/2009 3:21:19 AM
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How Do I Learn to Write? by Terry McGarry Sentence-by-sentence writing improvement: • Line by Line: How to Edit Your Own Writing, Claire Kehrwald Cook,Houghton Mifflin • A Dictionary of Modern English Usage, William Fowler, Oxford Univ. Press • The Careful Writer, Theodore M. Bernstein, Atheneum • The Practical Stylist, Sheridan Baker, Harper & Row • The Transitive Vampire: A Handbook of Grammar for the Innocent, the Eager, and the Doomed, Karen Elizabeth Gordon, Times Books (also The Well-Tempered Sentence by her) • The Elements of Style, Strunk & White Writing better fiction: • Beginnings, Middles, and Ends, Nancy Kress, Writer's Digest Books • Creating Short Fiction, Damon Knight, St. Martin's • On Becoming a Novelist, John Gardner, Harper & Row • The Art of Creative Writing, Lajos Egri (may be OOP) • Techniques of the Selling Writer, Dwight V. Swain • Science Fiction Writers Workshop I: An Introduction to Fiction Mechanics, Barry B. Longyear • How to Write a Damn Good Novel II,James N. Frey. St. Martins 1994, ISBN 0-312-10478-2 • Characters and Viewpoint, Orson Scott Card Writing better speculative fiction: • The Craft of Science Fiction, Reginald Bretnor • Those Who Can, ed. Robin Scott Wilson (recently reprinted) • Paragons, ed. Robin Scott Wilson • How to Write Science Fiction and Fantasy, Orson Scott Card, Writer's Digest Books • Writing Science Fiction and Fantasy, editors of Analog and Asimov's • Aliens and Alien Societies, ed. Ben Bova, Writer's Digest Books • Creating the Heavens, Melissa Scott, Heinemann Style manuals (cover grammar, punctuation, usage, treatment of names and terms, editing stages, book production): • The Chicago Manual of Style, University of Chicago • Words into Type, Prentice Hall • A Manual of Style (U.S. Govt Printing Office), Gramercy • The New York Times Manual of Style and Usage