drjon found this useful piece on writing, which I'll post on my course websites for students to peruse. There's a plethora of guides and books on writing, poetry and such that I use for my classes, but the one I think is perhaps the most valuable is not actually on the textbook list. I'm not sure why; I've just never bothered to change it. Perhaps I should. Stephen King's On Writing remains to me a seminal text on writing well. After a long while wondering where my original hardback... read more