Booklr's Essential Resources for Writers
The Chicago Manual of Style, 16th Edition: The Manual is considered the de facto guide for American English style, grammar, and punctuation. Even if you're a rouge punctuator (or a neologist), you should know the rules, and then break them.
Urban Dictionary: Slip some spicy slang into your writing, and keep it hip and loose. For a daily dose of street lingo, download Slango Lite, Urban Dictionary’s free app.
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King: Part instruction manual, part engaging memoir, King offers insight that is down-to-earth, witty, and sympathetic. This will be one of the most enjoyable and constructive writing guides you'll ever read, we promise.
The First Five Pages: A Writer’s Guide to Staying Out of the Rejection Pile by Noah Lukeman: Sound advice from an experienced literary agent who founded his own agency and whose clients include Pulitzer Prize winners, bestselling authors, and prominent academics. Lukeman’s experienced words of wisdom will help you navigate the world of publishing.
Every book you might ever encounter: William Faulkner astutely advised, “Read, read, read. Read everything–trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write.” You probably should heed his advice.
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