EDITING: TOP TEN BOOKS
Discover the top books on editing for writers, featuring Self-Editing for Fiction Writers and The Chicago Manual of Style—essential guides to refine your prose.
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Sin and Syntax
by Constance Hale
An expert on contemporary copywriting offers advice on up-to-date writing styles, showing how to break through conventional modes to achieve a striking and hip style.
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The Chicago Manual of Style
by University of Chicago. Press
Online version of 16th print ed., 2010. Also includes access to Chicago Style Q&A, Chicago-Style citation quick guide, and the 16th print ed.
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Self-Editing for Fiction Writers, Second Edition
by Renni Browne
Hundreds of books have been written on the art of writing. Here at last is a book by two professional editors to teach writers the techniques of the editing trade that turn promising manuscripts into published novels and short stories. In this completely revised and updated second edition, Renni Browne and Dave King teach you, the writer, how to apply the editing techniques they have developed to your own work. Chapters on dialogue, exposition, point of view, interior monologue, and other techniques take you through the same processes an expert editor would go through to perfect your manuscript. Each point is illustrated with examples, many drawn from the hundreds of books Browne and King have edited.
