Write In Style: How to Use Your Computer to Improve Your Writing

by Bobbie Christmas

This updated, upgraded, and expanded edition of "Write In Style" teaches writers how to produce captivating and compelling prose. Writers who apply the methods in this book uncover their fresh voice, the type of voice contemporary publishers and readers demand. The second edition goes even further than the first edition in pointing out weak and overused phrases that writers can find, delete, or revise in their fiction and nonfiction manuscripts. The first edition of "Write In Style" won awards and set thousands of writers on the path to publication. This expanded edition goes many steps beyond the first edition. Author Bobbie Christmas has been a writer, editor, and much-in-demand speaker for more than four decades. She poured her heart and expertise into this book to help writers improve their creative writing skills. This book is for anyone who writes novels, memoirs, short stories, how-to books, essays, business reports, advertising, and more. (First-place Winner, How-To Category, 2016 Florida Book Festival)

Genres: Writing

283 pages, Paperback

First published June 15, 2004

Reviews

[Allie Paleno · Rating 5 out of 5]

In short, life changing.

[Kathryn Flatt · Rating 5 out of 5]

Aspiring writers, read this one! A few years ago, an agent I submitted a partial manuscript to turned it over to Bobbie Christmas for a critique. What I got back opened my eyes -- I mean WIDE! I bought her book and learned a great deal from it. It's not only a great resource for finding problems with a manuscript, but it's entertaining too. Check out her "Manuslips" at the end of some of the chapters. They are bits of writing she has collected over her years as an editor and are hilarious, but they also point out how a writer can get a kind of tunnel vision about what they've written.

[Nadia Giordana · Rating 4 out of 5]

I plan to read this again. It is full of good info.

[Margot Note]

"I do not necessarily love to write; I love having written" (14).