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Kerrick

Read the following books:

- On Writing Well by William Zissner

- Several Short Sentences About Writing by Verlyn Klinkenborg

- The Elements of Style, 4th Edition by Strunk & White

- Good Prose by Kidder & Todd

- Wordcraft by Jack Hart

- Storycraft by Jack Hart

- The Art and Craft of Feature Writing by William Blundell

- The Art and Craft of Storytelling by Nancy Lamb

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If I may hijack your reply for a recommendation thread, I'd recommend "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker, too. It's worth it just for the section on metaconcepts. I loved how much simpler my writing became when I removed them.

Also, read anything by Robert Graves. He did write a style guide called "The Reader Over Your Shoulder", but that's optional; I learned far more about good writing from "I, Claudius" and "Good-Bye to All That".

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