Self-Editing for Fiction Writers

After jumping through many screenplay books, it was refreshing to pick up Self-Editing for Fiction Writers and get naked about the shortcomings of my writing. (As if that was not obvious enough!)

The book is well organized with sections full of examples and recommendations that a writer should take to heart, but I especially liked this passage:

"You don't want to give your readers information. You want to give them experiences... Resist the urge to explain. (R.U.E.)"

This book is not out to teach you fine points of editing grammatical errors but more of mechanics of storytelling within words and sentences. It offered salient points of storytelling better than some of screenplay books I've read and it also vastly improved my writing.

Since it's a lot easier to get published than get your script produced, this book could provide an opportunity to take that leap and turn your story-script into a novel for publication. (Novelization is also a part of whole movie-biz, is it not?)

Great, concise, reference book that deserves a place in any writer's bookshelf.