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
The Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr.On Writing by Stephen  KingOn Becoming a Novelist by John GardnerPlot Fiction like the Masters by Terry Richard BazesWriting Course by Hayley Paige
How to Not Suck at Writing
48 books — 19 voters
Heroes To The Public Villains To The Law by Marta NaterThe Copyeditor's Handbook by Amy EinsohnThe Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr.Eats, Shoots & Leaves by Lynne TrussOn writing well by William Zinsser
Best Books for Editors
90 books — 59 voters

A Story of Yesterday by Sergio CoboUna historia de ayer by Sergio CoboCity of Masks by Mary HoffmanAlso Known As Harper by Ann Haywood LealSmall Persons with Wings by Ellen Booraem
Bad Photo Editing
19 books — 3 voters
The Product is Docs by Christopher GalesLetting Go of the Words by Janice G. RedishBook Title Bible by Scott  LorenzEvery Page Is Page One by Mark                      B...The Elements of Content Strategy by Erin Kissane
Technical Writing
10 books — 3 voters

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
112 books — 58 voters

Stephen  King
Only God gets it right the first time and only a slob says, "Oh well, let it go, that's what copyeditors are for. ...more
Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

Shaila M. Abdullah
How do you end a story that’s not yours? Add another sentence where there is a pause? Infiltrate the story with a comma when really there should have been a period? Punctuate with an exclamation point where a period would have sufficed? What if you kill something breathing and breathe life into something the author wanted to eliminate? How do you get inside the mind of a person who isn’t there? Fill the shoes of someone who will never again fill his own?
Shaila Abdullah

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