writing basics

Grammar & Punctuation

• Purdue University Online Writing Lab (OWL)

• Chicago Manual of Style

• AP Style Book

• Grammar Girl

• Dr. Grammar

• Grammarphobia

• Grammar 101 and Advanced Grammar- Daily Writing Tips

• Grammar: What You Need to Know - author Janice Hardy

• The Most Comma Mistakes" - New York Times

Sentence Structure

• 7 Patterns of Sentence Structure - Daily Writing Tips

• Rhythm of the Words - author Janice Hardy

• Eliminate Sing-Song Writing - author Jill Kemerer

• Working Past Wordiness - Write It Sideways

Show Don't Tell

• What 'Show Don't Tell' Really Means - agent Mary Kole

• When to Tell Instead of Show - Kole

• Putting On Airs (More Show vs Tell) - Kole

Other How-Tos

• 10 Rules For Writing Fiction - Elmore Leonard, Diana Athill, Margaret Atwood, Roddy Doyle, Helen Dunmore, Geoff Dyer, Anne Enright, Richard Ford, Jonathan Franzen, Esther Freud, Neil Gaiman, David Hare, PD James, AL Kennedy, at The Guardian

• Writing vs Storytelling - author Janice Hardy

• How To Write a Novel - author/former agent Nathan Bransford

• Rules For Writers - author Zadie Smith

Word Choice

• The Thesaurus: Your Best Friend and Worst Enemy

• The Bookshelf Muse (site)

• 25 Things You Should Know About Word Choice - author Chuck Wendig (NSFW)

• Word Choice (series) - author Janice Hardy

• Avoiding Purple Prose - Hardy

• Vocabulary (series) - Daily Writing Tips

• Boobs: What word choice reveals about personality - authors Lisa and Laura Roecker

• Filter Words - author Cynthia Willis