Artefacts Of The Writing Life #4: The Style Guide

Recently I’ve been sharing a few artefacts* of the writing life with you and this week the spotlight’s on the Style Guide.

The two guides featured are my desktop “quick reference” go-to’s, the venerable Strunk & White’s The Elements of Style and the far more recent and for a while hugely popular, Eats, Shoots & Leaves.

In addition to these desktop aids, I also subscribe to the Chicago Manual of Style Online, which I practically live in during the copyediting and proofing stages of the book.

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