Zinnser's "On Writing Well" comes up as a recommendation from time to time, especially in tech circles. I don't want to gainsay those who have benefited from i

Zinnser's "On Writing Well" comes up as a recommendation from time to time, especially in tech circles. I don't want to gainsay those who have benefited from it. It does contain a few good tips. For me though, it was a bit of a slog and the payoff wasn't great It could just be a characteristic of the genre. My creative writing teacher tells me that most general interest books about the process of writing aren't worth reading, and having purchased a few of them, I would tend to agree. There are a few exceptions, but these tend to address specific topics within writing like memoir writing.