@SciencePunk Huxley's "Brave New World" and anything by Vonnegut will make you write better by accident.
@SciencePunk apparently Hunter S. Thompson used to repeatedly type out the Great Gatsby to help improve his own style
@SciencePunk bit of a left-field choice, but I always feel inspired by @Nigella_Lawson's writing - perfect mix of elegance and humour
@SciencePunk @DianaProbst read John McPhee's 2 articles on structure in the New Yorker, and then read the rest of his stuff and outline it.
@SciencePunk Michael Lewis for pacing, David Grann for narrative, Mark Kramer's "Telling True Stories" for everything
@TomChivers @SciencePunk Janet Malcolm's 'The Journalist And The Murderer' is a brilliant dissection of the writer/source relationship.
@SciencePunk David Foster Wallace if you want to see how mind and prose can leap dizzyingly from idea to idea but always return to its theme
@SciencePunk Ursula Le Guin. Read the short stories, and type them up, so you really take them in. (Advice applies to anyone you like.)
@SciencePunk Wodehouse - crisp prose, stunningly original metaphors, beautiful word play and ear for the music of language
@SciencePunk Ruth Rendell. Crisp, economical prose. Simple but evocative descriptions. Multilayered characterisation. Great plotting.
@SciencePunk maybe cliche, but John McPhee. Has a wonderful way with story structure, time and space transitions.
RT @bonzrat: @SciencePunk apparently Hunter S. Thompson used to repeatedly type out the Great Gatsby to help improve his own style
@SciencePunk I love Virginia Tufte’s “The Artful Sentence”. Allow yourself to jump around in it. Digest in slow helpings as you write.
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