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Write in Style: Using Your Word Processor and Other Techniques to Improve Your Writing

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This book is filled with valuable information that any writer can (and should) use. The breezy, upbeat style is fun and easy to read, and the examples and exercises will make you think. Ms. Christmas covers everything from weeding out adverbs with appropriate verbs to fine-tuning your manuscript. I highly recommend it.

Unless you are still writing on a typewriter or with paper and pencil, this book will improve your work. First it tells you the kind of mistakes you should be looking for, then tells you how to find and correct them using your word processor.

You won't find lessons on characterization or plot. You will find ways to make your writing tighter and more presentable to both the reader and the agent or publisher you are trying to impress with your work.

The book is more than worth the $13 being asked for it.

At several points reading Christmas's 'Write in Style', I was tempted to write a glowing review. Now, I selfishly don't want to. Everyone has at least one book inside them. I don't want you all to know how Bobbie's Christmas's guidance will guide you to tell your story. I want 'Write in Style' all to myself.

I could give a thorough review, of content and chapters, proving myself an excellent writer. But why? With Bobbie's guidance I stand a better chance of writing best sellers. Why write a review when you can write a book. Read 'Write in Style', study it for yourself. It's written by a master.

Not only does 'Write in Style' teach to write clearly, and give you a secret tool to reduce the work, Bobbie's guidance helps to get the story out from your imagination onto paper in the way readers want to read. 'Write in Style' encourages confidence and thereby enthuses you to write with the belief you have a guardian angel on your shoulder.

Thanks Bobbie.

Sorry Bobbie. I want to keep you all to myself.

just Jack

An invaluable book for any writer or aspiring writer. Most writing books aren't very objective, but this does it well, showing you how to improve your own style instead of incorporating someone else's. It shows you how to use your computer to help you find and fix problems. It's incredibly helpful, even to the experienced writer. It helped me tighten up my style and make it much more readable and appealing.

Let's say you're a good writer, have lots of good ideas, interesting characters, whiz-bang plots, all of it, but--you're not getting published. Maybe your writing needs a style upgrade. Maybe you're using passive constructions, dangling participles, weak modifiers, and variant English. Maybe the editors are tossing your manuscripts after the first page. You need to read this book to write with genuine, publishable style.

Author Bobbie Christmas teaches writers like us how to use the Find function on our word processors to track down and eliminate unstylish usages and write tighter, stronger sentences. Not only that, she is witty, clever and easy to read. She doesn't hesitate to poke fun at herself, which makes her teachings easy to swallow. Guess what? This reviewer makes a lot of the mistakes she talks about in her book. Not any more. Armed with Write In Style I will do better, and you will, too.

Writers, run out and get Write In Style today. You will be glad you did. Reviewed by Louis N. Gruber.

Every good writer knows that judicious rewriting makes for a better book. Bobbie Christmas gives us specific helpful tools so that we can do our own revising BEFORE we send our books to the agent/editor/powers that be.

WRITE IN STYLE is packed not just with "Don't Do This" directions, but with often-hilarious examples of how to repair the problems. I use WRITE IN STYLE frequently as a reference tool when writing my cat mysteries. It's handy when I'm editing other people's books, too. But just as often I browse through it simply to get a laugh.

If you write -- this is a must-read. Buy it. Use it.

This is a wonderful book for anyone thinking of writing a book or anyone wanting to write a book with greater impact or anyone who has written a book and trying to get it published.

Bobbie Christmas has been involved in writing, editing & publishing for over 30 years. Her book gives you a down to earth analysis of how to be a better writer. This is not theoretical or a pie in the sky, she simply explains what works and what doesn't work and how to better present your thoughts.
I found this book extremely informative and it is also a fun book to read.

This book is a very good resource for any writer, student, other. Great for learning good writing, interesting writing, and proper writing. After I have written something, I usually go back through what I've finished with Write in Style in my opposite hand. Is clear, pointed, and easy to read.

This is a practical book that will improve your writing instantly. There are better books on the theory of writing, but this will upgrade your manuscript with the first application. An important tool for writers. It cannot substitute for all writing manuals, but should be a staple.