[petemir]

Have you tried Steven Pinker's "Sense of Style"? Although there is indeed a chapter (ch.4) that deals with some difficult to apply concepts (i.e. adding unnecessary friction at the moment of writing), the other chapters delve into graspable topics with lots of examples that clearly explain what works and doesn't.

[edna314]

No, I haven’t read this one, maybe it’s worth a try. The issue is, even when you are at a stage where you realize what works and what doesn’t, you still wouldn’t know what to write exactly. The only option you have is to write up sentences, then check whether you made a mistake and, if so, write up a different sentence and reiterate. I would need a book which would tell me how to construct sentences which are in accordance with all the rules and concepts. But, it doesn’t seem to be possible to write such a book, since writing really is an art. After all, there also isn’t any book which teaches you how to paint like Da Vinci, but only those which tell you which rules you can apply to his paintings.