There are several basic self-help books out there for amateur writers, and I was surprised I hadn’t heard of this one before a fellow writer used this book to point out some of my own misdeeds. Since then, Self-Editing has become my go-to book for basic things like point of view, the mechanics of dialogue, avoiding dreaded exposition, and other building blocks of the writer’s trade. Recently, I was struggling with inner monologue for my characters (I don’t use it a lot and I should), […]