Essayer's instrumentsWordPoints at Troynovant:
Pearls on Writing, Editing, or Publishing;
listed by Title

Note that books and other works are listed here if the subject work or its review dallies with general ideas about the nature or history or process of writing, of words or language; or the review discusses how a particular work was composed or treated thereafter, and so on. For a partly overlapping companion list oriented more toward literary criticism, see LitCrit at Troynovant.
  
      
Cocoanuts, The Marx Brothers RW Franson
Eats, Shoots & Leaves:
  The Zero Tolerance Approach
  to Punctuation		 Lynne Truss A Cox
Eclectic Antiques:
  A Commercial Definition, For Fun		 RW Franson
Finding Serenity:
  Anti-Heroes, Lost Shepherds and Space Hookers
  in Joss Whedon's Firefly		 Jane Espenson RW Franson
Freddy and the Bean Home News Walter R. Brooks RW Franson
Freedom of Speech HD Thoreau
Heinlein's Missed Bestsellers RW Franson
High School Student Pursing Carrer RW Franson
In Search of Wonder:
  Essays on Modern Science Fiction		 Damon Knight RW Franson
Man Who Traveled in Elephants, The  Robert A. Heinlein  RW Franson
More in Sorrow Wolcott Gibbs RW Franson
Oxyrhynchus Papyri:
  New Light on Ancient Texts		 RW Franson
Ring of Words, The:
  Tolkien and the Oxford English Dictionary		 Peter Gilliver,
  Jeremy Marshall
  & Edmund Weiner		 RW Franson
Will in the World:
  How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare		 Stephen Greenblatt RW Franson
Years with Ross, The James Thurber RW Franson
     
     
Compilation:
Speaking through Texts:
  a local habitation and a name		 RW Franson
     
Non-Proofreading, or Creative Typology:
  (but really, their name is Legion)
Entities: Selected Novels Eric Frank Russell  RW Franson
     

[Prospero's island.]

Prospero:

                    Thou shalt be as free
As mountain winds; but then exactly do
All points of my command.

Ariel:

To th' syllable.

William Shakespeare
The Tempest, 1.2.502-505
 
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