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Ithaca Manual of Style. How to Write Fiction and Nonfiction that’s Bold, Truthful, Beautiful, Captivating, and Unputdownable (second edition). This second edition has been expanded to 45 Chapters and 450 pages. "Reading the Ithaca Manual of Style will make you a more insightful reader, a smarter editor, and a better writer." Most traditional style guides are mere reference books containing countless tedious rules and reminders about SPUG: spelling, punctuation, usage, and grammar. The Ithaca Manual of Style is not about the fanatic obsession with correctness. In a lively style, the Ithaca Manual illuminates how professional writers write with precision, power, energy, and passion. From the book: "What is style?... It is more, vastly more, than the sum of the diction (the choice and use of words), the syntax (the arrangement of words in phrases and sentences), and the careful crafting of sentences to transmit an idea or evoke a feeling. Style, in great writing, is the sincerest expression of the author’s inmost self.“ The book is 100% made with NI: Natural Intelligence. The Mind Less Taken by Michael Pastore I shall be telling this with surprise Somewhere ages and pages hence: While the lazy minds made it with AI I worked countless nights with determined eyes and mere Natural Intelligence. ====================================