Write Away

I have to be honest and say that beyond composition textbooks, I'm not familiar with many writing manuals beyond King's or Peter Elbow's which is older than me, I think, and not one I would recommend to anyone at this point (although his writing pedagogy still informs comp/rhetoric teaching to an extent). I do think King's worth the money, though. It has good advice, it isn't prescriptive, and it isn't overly fussy. I don't agree with everything he says in the book, but overall, I think it's useful.