amperser / proselint

A linter for prose.
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Extract rules from these books on writing #107

Open suchow opened 9 years ago

suchow commented 9 years ago

http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/01/09/best-books-on-writing-reading/#advice

mpacer commented 9 years ago

EoS is covered. Bird by Bird is less about the consequences of writing than the act of it — less editing advice more life coaching. On Writing I have in a box somewhere — i'll go find it < interrupts writing comments>

On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 11:12 PM, Jordan Suchow notifications@github.com wrote:

http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/01/09/best-books-on-writing-reading/#advice

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mpacer commented 9 years ago

Title; Author (Included (at least partially) ✓, not included yet _), Owned/unowned by

Elements of Style; Strunk and White ✓, owned by mdp Bird by Bird; Anne Lamont ✓, owned by mdp On Writing; Stephen King ✓, owned by mdp Zen in the Art of Writing; Ray Bradbury , not owned The War of Art; Steven Pressfield , not owned Advice to writers; Jon Winokur , not owned How to write a sentence: and how to read one; Stanley Fish , not owned Ernest Hemmingway on Writing; (ed.) Larry W. Phillips , not owned How to read a book; Mortimer J. Adler & Charles van Doren , not owned

suchow commented 9 years ago

I bought The War of Art on Audible a few days ago — I've heard good things and the hope is to find some extractable and automatable advice.