I picked up a couple books from Chapters yesterday.
The first is Writing for the Web by Crawford Kilian. I’ve started reading it, and after only a few chapters it already gives some pretty simple advice for online writing. These include basic things, like understanding that your audience is impatient, so write short, readable sentences.
The other book I got was the The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2009.
My goal between these two books is to continually improve my writing skills (please note that I tend to write my blog posts in a single draft, stream-of-consciousness format, see my articles for writing that I’m more proud of) and by the end of this summer I’d like to have my first writings actually published for profit (as opposed to in student newspapers or otherwise).
