Here is what she said: bloggergirl 21 hours ago | link [dead] I'll add to this list my all-time favorite writing companion: Virginia Tufte's "Grammar As Style

Here is what she said: bloggergirl 21 hours ago | link [dead] I'll add to this list my all-time favorite writing companion: Virginia Tufte's "Grammar As Style". It's been out of print forever, which is tragic, and, when you can find it, it usually sells for over $100 - even in rough shape. "Artful Sentences" is meant to replace "Grammar As Style", but I prefer the original. If you want to tie all the rules together so you can understand why we even have grammar in the first place and how truly magical grammar can be to shaping a sentence or paragraph, track down this book. Interesting: Virginia Tufte is the mother of data visualization guru Edward Tufte. (Other good books for writers and writers-in-training: "Bird by Bird" by Anne Lamont, Stephen King's "On Writing" and a collection of letters on writing by F. Scott Fitzgerald, also called "On Writing". Oh, and please don't hate on White's "Elements of Style" --- it may be old, but it's foundational.)