Theory
- Editing Principle 28: Know What Assumptions You’re Making
- Editing Principle 27: Arcs Are Good, Straight Lines Less So
- Editing Principle 26: You Can’t Disguise the Conditions Under Which the Work Was Created
- Editing Principle 25: First Comes Love, then Comes Attention
- Editing Principle 24: “TK” Your Way Out of Brain Freeze
- Editing Principle 23: Dangling Participles Are Grammatically Incorrect But Mostly (and Worse) They’re Boring
- Editing Principle 22: Laugh Lines Reside in Syllable Counts
- Editing Principle 21: It Matters
- Editing Principle 20: Fast and Concrete is More Convincing than Long and Pushy
- Editing Principle 19: Understandings that Improve Fiction (+ Screenplays) Improve All Texts
- Editing Principle 18: Bad Editors are Doubleplusungood
- Editing Principle 17: Piggybacking
- Editing Principle 16: -ings Make Readers Itch
- Editing Principle 15: Waste Will Be Generated
- Editing Principle 14: Regaining Perspective Becomes Habit
- Editing Principle 13: Syntax Errors Hide Weak Arguments
- Editing Principle 12: It Will Hurt Less, Eventually
- Editing Principle 11: Be Wary of Lists
- Editing Principle 10: You Need to Know Whether You’re in the Business of Reminding People of Things They Already Know, or in the Business of Asking Them to Change Their Minds
- Editing Principle 09: Readers Want to Be Seen as Smart
- Editing Principle 08: You Don’t Always Know What You Don’t Know
- Editing Principle 07: If You Really Love a Line, Let It Go
- Editing Principle 06: The Medium Seeps Into the Message
- Editing Principle 05: Rule of Odds
- Editing Principle 04: A Little Gristle Is Good
- Editing Principle 03: On the Internet, No One Knows You’re a Good Person
- Editing Principle 02: Respect Your Audience’s Time
- Editing Principle 01: The Shortest Distance Between Reading and Comprehension
