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Beyond Style: Mastering the Finer Points of Writing

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Style is something that's easy to recognize in someone else's writing, not so easy to see in your own. Provost's book addresses things like the relationship between form and content, proportion and spacing, slant and theme, spinning a "spell," how to weave the reader's dream -- the hard stuff that writers hope will happen but often don't know how to create.

This book is the best and it's from one of the finest writing teachers around, who is sadly missed since his death a couple of years ago.

Writers of fiction and nonfiction alike will benefit from it. It teaches skills that will set your writing apart from everyone else's. Provost gives the writer control over the material.

A great help for intermediate writers. Gary Provost gives meaningful examples as well as detailed instructions for good writing. The subtitle for this book is 'Mastering the Finer Points of Writing - Form, Tone, Subtlety, Pacing, Tension, Metaphor, Theme, Viewpoint, Slant, Flashbacks and Many Others.'

He delivers on all points.

If you're serious about becoming a writer, buy this book. There are a zillion how to write tomes out there, and to be very honest, most of them are confusing. I know this because I've bought hundreds of these books. Until I found this one.

Too bad it's out of print. I wish Writer's Digest would re-issue it.