top of page
Search

Book Recommendation: Writing Tools by Roy Peter Clark

Aug 30
1 min read

For anyone wishing to improve their writing, I recommend a book by Roy Peter Clark called Writing Tools (10th Anniversary Edition): 55 Essential Strategies for Every Writer.


It’s packed with usable techniques and formatted into bite-sized chapters, each of which ends with exercises in writing, reading, and observing. He draws examples from a wide array of fiction and nonfiction, journalism and literature.  I also enjoyed his book The Glamour of Grammar, which I read several years ago.


I’ll be tucking both of these in my bookshelf and probably reaching for Writing Tools often over the next few months as I wrap up the cozy Massachusetts mystery I’m writing!

 
 
 

Recent Posts

See All
When To Spell Out Numbers Using CMOS

A frequent question from writers is how to show numbers in their manuscript. Should the number be spelled out with letters or should digits be used? As with just about everything related to books, The

 
 
 
Setting

Setting has always been a beloved feature of a book for me. My favorite books are ones where the setting almost becomes a character itself. A memoir I read years ago—Jill Ker Conway’s The Road from Co

 
 
 
The Nancy Drew Series - Looking Back

Any Nancy Drew fans here? I picked up The Clue of the Leaning Chimney at an antique store in Concord, MA a few months ago. It has a copyright date of 1949, which is fun because it is part of the orig

 
 
 

Comments

Rated 0 out of 5 stars.
No ratings yet
Add a rating
bottom of page