On Writing Well: Part I, Principles

On Writing Well by William Zinsser came to me as the result of someone else cleaning out their books. I don’t turn down free writing books. (Who am I kidding? I don’t turn down books…)

My inherited edition is hard-bound, with a cherry-tomato linen cover that peeks from the ripped dust jacket. A Goth cover design: stark, matte-black. Bold red serif fonts. The pale white suggestion of a subtitle. Very appropriate for a 1985 Third Edition.

It has been recommended to me several times by writers...