Tactical Tuesday: Advice for Self-Editing

Christmas is around the corner. After Christmas is the time when I stock up on books on my three favorite subjects: storytelling, grammar, and punctuation. So, for your bookseller gift-card buying spree, may I recommend the following:

Recommended Reading
Punctuation and Grammar

Nitty-Gritty Grammar (A Not-So-Serious Guide to Clear Punctuation)
Edith H. Fine and Judith P. Josephson
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Painless Grammar
Rebecca Elliott, Ph.D.
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The Elements of Style
William Strunk, Jr., and E.B. White
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Merriam Webster’s Guide to Punctuation and Style
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Self-Editing for Fiction Writers
Renni Browne and Dave King
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Punctuation: Plain and Simple
Edgar C. Alwaard and Jean A. Alward
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The Curious Case of the Misplaced Modifier
Bonnie Trenga
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Lapsing Into a Comma
Bill Walsh
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Write (Or Is That “Right”?) Every Time
Lottie Stride
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Grammar Girl’s Quick and Dirty Trips for Better Writing
Mignon Fogarty
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Grammar by Diagram (Book and Workbook)
City L. Vitto
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A Dash of Style: The Art and Mastery of Punctuation
Noah Lukeman

Recommended Reading
The Writing Craft

Point of View
Rivet Your Readers with Deep Point of View
Jill Elizabeth Nelson
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The Power of Point of View: Make Your Story Come to Life
Alicia Rasley
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Showing vs. Telling, Dialogue, Characters, Conflict & Pacing
Writing Fiction for Dummies
Randy Ingermanson
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Plot and Structure,
Revision and Self-Editing and
Conflict and Suspense
James Scott Bell
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The Fire in Fiction
Writing the Next Break-Through Novel (Book and Workbook)
Donald Maass
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Getting into Character
Brandilyn Collins
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Creating Characters
Techniques of the Selling Writer
Dwight V. Swain
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Building Believable Characters
Marc McCutcheon
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The Plot Thickens
The First Five Pages
Noah Lukeman


 Happy editing.

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