100 Ways to Improve Your Writing
Proven Professional Techniques for Writing With Style and Power

Short, pithy and very helpful tips on improving writing skills. Many tips stood out for me including: 1. Make yourself likeable 2. Expand your vocabulary 3. Improve spelling 4. Eavesdrop 5. Write in your head 6. Choose a time and place to write 7. Talk about what you're writing 8. Set a tone and maintain it 9......more

Paired together with Stephen King's On Writing and Strunk and White's The Elements of Style, you can't really do a whole lot better when it comes to writing advice. The common sense advice appearing in this book, as well as in the other two books, is fundamental to good writing. But it's all simple.......more

If I had to pick only one book on writing, this would be it.......more

These are the highlights that I'll review now and then: Research Before you write, track down the bits of information you are going to need. Choose a time and place It’s getting started that I abhor. Can you lock the door? Turn off the phone? You will get more writing done in an undisturbed hour than you......more

Short, helpful book to improve your writing. It has a lot of tips, suggestions, and advice. I felt like it was geared toward more of the academic side than the creative side, but they are related. The only reason I deducted a star is because I knew a lot of it already (I’ve read numerous books on wr......more