Writing Tool Recommendation: The New York Times Dictionary of Misunderstood, Misused, & Mispronounced Words: Words We Know (until Someone Asks Us What They Mean)
In all its rugged splendor. This is a brilliant book, and you should buy it. I was reading Gene Wolfe's Castle of the Otter (a collection of essays and advice named after a humorous misreporting of the title of his book Citadel of Autarch ), and two pieces of advice really stuck out to me: 1) Write a story every day. 2) Buy the New York Times Dictionary of Misunderstood, Misused, & Mispronounced Words – it's really cheap. Also an $8 find. I thought, "Okay, but he wrote that back in the 80s. I bet this book is a collectors' item now." Then, I looked it up on Thrift Books. It's only eight dollars! 8! That's, like, half a latte. You could buy three and juggle them! One, it's awesome if you're reading Gene Wolfe, because when he uses a word you don't know (approximately every other sentence), you have the dictionary that he was using right here in your hand. Secondly, you now possess a normal-book sized dictionary with readable size text tha...