The Doc on Writing: I have just added Self Editing for Fiction Writers to the list of books that every writer should have, no matter what. I've actually managed to take something I wrote more than half a decade ago that was halting and poor, and make it workable by applying the checklists in the back of each chapter.

I wish there was some way to grind up everything it teaches and stick it in my brain so I could write that way to begin with.