Resources

Below you will find a potpourri of curated materials intended to shed light on the editorial and creative processes, and to assist writers of poetry or prose in practicing their craft. New links will be added periodically.

(In addition, handouts of my own making are available to clients.)

Beware!

Editing

One-paragraph sample edit

Editing at a glance

Levels of editing checklist

What’s the point of an editor?

Inside dope

Editing, copyediting, and proofreading 1

Editing, copyediting, and proofreading 2

Comma, comma, comma

For lack of a comma

Ode to the spell checker

Why punctuation matters

Voice

Behind the rules

Grammar 1

Grammar 2

Craft

Take it from Kurt Vonnegut

George Saunders weighs in

Interviews with (mostly) emerging writers

Poetry-specific

Your brain on poetry

Mark Yakich breaks it down

The three kinds of poetry as per Ezra Pound

Hammer and tongs