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Oxford Guide to Writing is also a good one if you're willing to treat it like a workbook and go through the exercises step by step.

Read King's On Writing. If you use adverbs, ever, you are a literal idiot, and your writing sucks.

>>8265830
Depends on your goal. It isn't that useful for literary writing but it is fantastic for legal, academic, business, or journalistic writing.

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>>8266871
i thought king was a hack who ruined literature

>>8265830
no. develop your own style and accept the heat and shit you get if people dont like it or consider it as trespassing on convention.

>>8266871
No. King can go fuck himself.

>>8265830
No.

Only a bitch learns how to write from a book. Real men teach themselves how to do it the bloody, hard way.

You should read it

You think Shakespeare read that?

Learn to write by reading great books, not books about how to write.

>>8265830

Yes, along with others. You can break the rules, but you should know what the rules are and why they are, to inform you on when and why to break them or even disagree with them in general (e.g., King's thing about adverbs, Vonnegut's about semicolons, and iirc S&W have something about prepositions)

>>8265830
That book is responsible for more bad, predictable prose than John Green's cancerous asshole mouth. Good prose is one of the rarest features in literature, and among most important.

>>8268346
He went to Stratford grammar school and used a hornbook.

>>8268346
>you think Shakespeare read that?

LMAO