Beyond Style: Mastering the Finer Points of Writing

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Summary: Excellent Writer's Resource
Review: 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.

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Summary: Learn the fine points of writing from the best
Review: 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.