Editing


The Subversive Copy Editor: Advice from Chicago
The Copyeditor's Handbook: A Guide for Book Publishing and Corporate Communications, with Exercises and Answer Keys
What Editors Do: The Art, Craft, and Business of Book Editing (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing)
Self-Editing for Fiction Writers: How to Edit Yourself Into Print
The Elements of Style
In the Blink of an Eye: A Perspective on Film Editing
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
The Chicago Manual of Style
Developmental Editing: A Handbook for Freelancers, Authors, and Publishers (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing)
The Artful Edit: On the Practice of Editing Yourself
Dreyer's English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style
The Story Grid: What Good Editors Know
The Chicago Guide to Copyediting Fiction (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing)
Editors on Editing: What Writers Need to Know About What Editors Do
Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen
Directing Actors by Judith WestonIn the Blink of an Eye by Walter MurchOn Directing Film by David MametProducing and Directing the Short Film and Video by Peter W. ReaMaking Movies by Sidney Lumet
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On Writing by Stephen  KingBird by Bird by Anne LamottThe Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr.Writing Down the Bones by Natalie GoldbergWild Mind by Natalie Goldberg
Being a Better Writer
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Elie Wiesel
Writing is not like painting where you add. It is not what you put on the canvas that the reader sees. Writing is more like a sculpture where you remove, you eliminate in order to make the work visible. Even those pages you remove somehow remain. There is a difference between a book of two hundred pages which is the result of an original eight hundred pages. The six hundred pages are there. Only you don't see them. ...more
Elie Wiesel

Colette
Put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it." (Casual Chance, 1964) ...more
Colette

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