Reddit mentions of Writeful

There is one I stumbled across several years ago: Writeful, by Gary Hoffman. I'd strongly recommend it, as it covers different styles of writing, etc, and has really helped me. If anything, it reads easily and makes excellent use of examples. It also gives writing exercises for each technique if you're interested in that.

Now mind you, I bought this book for fiction writing, but it does cover academic topics as well. That, and the techniques it offers are easily applicable to both. It's not filled with groundbreaking advice, but it certainly opened up my eyes to different styles and their impact on the reader.

Looks like you can get it rather cheaply off of Amazon's marketplace:
http://www.amazon.com/Writeful-Gary-Hoffman/dp/0937363006

If you want anymore detail about the book, or examples from it, etc., I'd be glad to offer some. I'm currently in college and it was one of the few books I did bring along to reference. Also, it makes for some decent pleasure reading that's still productive.

Many years of reading, along with a few terrible fics that I learned a lot from, but never saw the light of day. I did read this book, and I strongly recommend it to anyone. Although it helps that it's super cheap. If you have any questions about it, I love to talk about it.



For grammar and technical stuff, I use Ellen Brock's blog. I also like the writing excuses podcast. I think it helps a lot with staying productive even when I can't be writing.


Granted my writing ethic itself is pretty terrible and inconsistent. Oops.

Edit: ^And ^thank ^you ^so ^much ^I'm ^squeeing ^inside ^right ^now.