Resources for Writers
Writing can be daunting! But you don’t have to do it alone. Below you’ll find lists of some of my favorite reference guides for writers. When you’re ready to work with me, I’d love to learn all about your project.
Style Guides
Style guides are reference works that lay out frameworks and best practices for writing and publication. They compile what many think of as the “rules” of grammar, punctuation, and usage, but in practice, they are references created to assist with–not dictate!–decision-making about language.
Style Guides
Chicago Manual of Style Quick Guide to Citations: the most common style guide for trade (general audience) fiction and nonfiction publishing and scholarly work in the humanities. The online guide is a paid product, but this quick guide to citations, both notes-and-bibliography and author-date styles, is free.
MLA Style Center: a style guide used for student writing and some academic audiences; similar in some ways to Chicago style. The site is a trove of style information, including a quick guide to works cited, writing samples, and teaching resources.
Associated Press Stylebook News: the most common resource for news journalists and media writers. Language use changes constantly–get the latest discussions of journalistic style here.
APA Style: a guide published by the American Psychological Association and used for scholarly writing.
Purdue Online Writing Lab Style Guide Quick References: A handy starting point and quick reference to MLA, APA, and Chicago style, especially for citations.
Not sure what to use? For a general audience, Chicago style is a good starting point.
Editorial Directories
Looking for a service I don’t provide? You’ll find good candidates in these searchable directories.
Useful Sites
Conscious Style Guide: An ever-expanding clearinghouse for information on writing clearly and respectfully about ability and disability, climate and environment, race, gender, spirituality, and more.
Quick and Dirty Tips: Grammar Girl: Got a grammar question but not sure what words to use to look it up? Mignon Fogarty has you covered! Search the archives or check out her award-winning podcast.
Writer Beware: The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association maintains this resource to help writers avoid “problems and pitfalls” on the way to publication.
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—Lizzie Davis, Senior Editor, Coffee House Press
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