Below is a collection of noteworthy tools, books, and resources designed to help improve your writing:
TOOLS
Grammarly: Clear, effective, mistake-free writing everywhere you type.
Autocrit: AutoCrit automatically identifies weak words and structures in your writing so you can clean it up.
Acronym Finder: With more than 565,000 human-edited entries, Acronym Finder is the world’s largest and most comprehensive dictionary of acronyms, abbreviations, and initials.
BLOGS
These blogs can help you learn more about the profession of writing, story, structure and substance.
Steven Pressfield: film writer and International best-selling author, and his team blog every week on story and structure.
Copyblogger: Tips on how to improve the content, marketing, and business of a blog. A must for any writer hoping to gain readership in the digital sphere.
Write to Done: This blog is home to hundreds of articles on writing that can help improve your skills.
Grammar Girl: Grammar Girl is one of the most popular grammar sites on the web and is a great place to look for answers to all of your burning questions about proper usage.
BOOKS
The Copywriter’s Handbook: A Step-By-Step Guide To Writing Copy That Sells by Robert Bly
The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles by Steven Pressfield
Story: Style, Structure, Substance, and the Principles of Screenwriting. The only guide you’ll ever need for the fundamentals of storytelling by Robert McKee
The Elements of Style (PDF): This classic book by Strunk and White is offered up in its entirety on Bartleby.com so you can improve your writing without spending a dime.
Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die by Chip Heath and Dan Heath
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