Short Writing Trove

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Write Tight: How to Keep Your Prose Sharp, Focused and Concise
Write Tight: How to Keep Your Prose Sharp, Focused and Concise 4.04 avg rating — 240 ratings
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How to Write Short: Word Craft for Fast Times
How to Write Short: Word Craft for Fast Times 3.77 avg rating — 1,233 ratings
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Title to Come
Title to Come 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Garner's Modern American Usage
Garner's Modern American Usage 4.60 avg rating — 1,064 ratings
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The World in a Phrase: A Brief History of the Aphorism
The World in a Phrase: A Brief History of the Aphorism 3.70 avg rating — 213 ratings
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Twitter Wit: Brilliance in 140 Characters or Less
Twitter Wit: Brilliance in 140 Characters or Less 3.09 avg rating — 558 ratings
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Hint Fiction: An Anthology of Stories in 25 Words or Fewer
Hint Fiction: An Anthology of Stories in 25 Words or Fewer 3.83 avg rating — 743 ratings
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How to Write Attention-getting Memos, Letters, and E-mails
How to Write Attention-getting Memos, Letters, and E-mails 2.80 avg rating — 5 ratings
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On the Origin of Stories: Evolution, Cognition, and Fiction
On the Origin of Stories: Evolution, Cognition, and Fiction 3.83 avg rating — 437 ratings
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Microstyle: The Art of Writing Little
Microstyle: The Art of Writing Little 3.71 avg rating — 295 ratings
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The 2,548 Best Things Anybody Ever Said
The 2,548 Best Things Anybody Ever Said 3.62 avg rating — 424 ratings
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Schott's Original Miscellany
Schott's Original Miscellany 4.10 avg rating — 2,100 ratings
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World According to Twitter
World According to Twitter 3.57 avg rating — 171 ratings
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The Word Made Flesh: Literary Tattoos from Bookworms Worldwide
The Word Made Flesh: Literary Tattoos from Bookworms Worldwide 3.61 avg rating — 895 ratings
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The Writer's Chapbook A Compendium of Fact, Opinion, Wit, and Advice from the Twentieth Century's Preeminent Writers
The Writer's Chapbook A Compendium of Fact, Opinion, Wit, and Advice from the Twentieth Century's Preeminent Writers 4.17 avg rating — 147 ratings
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Assorted Prose
Assorted Prose 3.79 avg rating — 90 ratings
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The Collected Poems, Vol. 1: 1909-1939
The Collected Poems, Vol. 1: 1909-1939 4.20 avg rating — 6,182 ratings
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Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America
Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America 4.16 avg rating — 8,536 ratings
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A Bintel Brief: Sixty Years of Letters from the Lower East Side to the Jewish Daily Forward
A Bintel Brief: Sixty Years of Letters from the Lower East Side to the Jewish Daily Forward 4.23 avg rating — 249 ratings
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Signposts to Elsewhere
Signposts to Elsewhere 4.38 avg rating — 21 ratings
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Dale Carnegie's Scrapbook
Dale Carnegie's Scrapbook 3.74 avg rating — 100 ratings
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The Man Who Made Lists: Love, Death, Madness, and the Creation of Roget's Thesaurus
The Man Who Made Lists: Love, Death, Madness, and the Creation of Roget's Thesaurus 3.24 avg rating — 677 ratings
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The Viking Book of Aphorisms, A personal Selection
The Viking Book of Aphorisms, A personal Selection 3.99 avg rating — 75 ratings
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420 Characters
420 Characters
by: Lou Beach
3.54 avg rating — 774 ratings
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The Best of Dorothy Parker
The Best of Dorothy Parker 3.97 avg rating — 221 ratings
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The Haiku Anthology: Haiku And Senryu In English
The Haiku Anthology: Haiku And Senryu In English 4.17 avg rating — 553 ratings
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Epigrams
Epigrams 4.17 avg rating — 268 ratings
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The Adweek Copywriting Handbook: The Ultimate Guide to Writing Powerful Advertising and Marketing Copy from One of America's Top Copywriters
The Adweek Copywriting Handbook: The Ultimate Guide to Writing Powerful Advertising and Marketing Copy from One of America's Top Copywriters 4.14 avg rating — 1,503 ratings
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Words That Work: It's Not What You Say, It's What People Hear
Words That Work: It's Not What You Say, It's What People Hear 3.63 avg rating — 2,482 ratings
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The Art of the Epigraph: How Great Books Begin
The Art of the Epigraph: How Great Books Begin 3.38 avg rating — 24 ratings
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When You Catch an Adjective, Kill It: The Parts of Speech, for Better And/Or Worse
When You Catch an Adjective, Kill It: The Parts of Speech, for Better And/Or Worse 3.75 avg rating — 396 ratings