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Best Grammar Checker and Proofreading Software by Grammarly

http://www.grammarly.com/# However, it's understood that the editing needs of writers differ, so the grammar checker can be set to check grammatical errors according to your needs.

Tests Document Readability

This free online software tool calculates readability : Coleman Liau index, Flesch Kincaid Grade Level, ARI (Automated Readability Index), SMOG. The measure of readability used here is the indication of number of years of education that a person needs to be able to understand the text easily on the first reading. Comprehension tests and skills training. http://www.online-utility.org/english/readability_test_and_improve.jsp
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/06/28/50-free-resources-that-will-improve-your-writing-skills/ Effective writing skills are to a writer what petrol is to a car. Like the petrol and car relationship, without solid skills writers cannot move ahead.

50 Free Resources That Will Improve Your Writing Skills - Smashing Magazine

Even if you have the perfect idea for the next Great American Novel, getting it down on paper is never easy. http://ostatic.com/blog/five-open-source-apps-for-writers-and-authors

Five Open Source Apps For Writers and Authors

http://writeitsideways.com/23-websites-that-make-your-writing-stronger/

23 Websites that Make Your Writing Stronger

No matter how good you think it is, there’s always room for improvement. In most cases, plenty of room.
Just going through my notebooks. I seldom, if ever, give actual writing advice.

Collection of Killer Writing Tips | Wordpreneur

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I do a lot of copyediting, both of books and advertising collateral. I’ll let you in on a secret that still surprises me, although I’ve seen it hundreds of times now. If you looked at the raw work of most professional writers, you’d be pretty underwhelmed. http://www.remarkable-communication.com/5-editors-secrets-to-help-you-write-like-a-pro/

5 editor’s secrets to help you write like a pro | Remarkable Communication

As an editor, I’ve noticed several recurring bad habits you heathens would do well to disabuse yourselves of immediately. http://www.thinkingandmaking.com/view/more-tips-for

(More) tips for writing well (Austin Govella at Thinking and Making)

This site includes numerous resources like: creativity resources, writing process, grammar guides, style and usage, fat-free writing, plain language, active writing, reference sources, word links, writing experts, word play, and much more. A worldwide community of writers featuring excellent resources for fiction and nonfiction writers with particular support for writing about Scotland. The Celebration of Women Writers

Nonfiction Resources - Nonfiction Writing

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Internet Resources - Writers Resources - Writing Links & Writers Links for Writers - Word Stuff

http://www.internet-resources.com/writers/wrlinks-wordstuff.htm Unsorted [/writers] James Patrick Kelly - Murder Your Darlings - "When time comes to make that final revision, however, you must harden your heart, sharpen the ax and murder your darlings."
Cliches (properly spelled clichés, with the acute accent) are words and phrases, once interesting, which have lost their original effect from overuse.

500 Cliches to Avoid in Your Creative Writing

by Mark Nichol Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to conceive written communication. So many pairs or trios of words and phrases stymie us with their resemblance to each other.

50 Problem Words and Phrases

20 Common Grammar Mistakes That (Almost) Everyone Makes | LitReactor

I’ve edited a monthly magazine for more than six years, and it’s a job that’s come with more frustration than reward.

These are the grammar, usage, and style errors seen most commonly in written materials.

The most common grammar, usage, and style errors in print today.

11 Stupidest Writing Mistakes - SalesHQ

Professional writers often worry that their work is unnecessary.