书名：100 Ways to Improve Your Writing  100种提高写作水平的方法

作者：Gary Provost 

出版社名称：Berkley 

出版时间：2019 

语种：英语 

ISBN：9781984803689 

商品尺寸：10.6 x 1.2 x 17.3 cm 

包装：平装 

页数：176（以实物为准）

本书是100 Ways to Improve Your Writing《100种提高写作水平的方法》对1987年版本改版的新版。

本书是适用于任何人（无论是学生，商人还是专业作家）的一本写作指南。涵盖了充满专业技巧和大量指导性示例的100种改善写作的方法，可以帮助解决任何写作问题。 本书内容紧凑且易于使用，书中还提供了从语法和标点符号到句子，以及关于挑战的建议。 The classic text on writing well, now refreshed and updated. This is the one guide that anyone who writes—whether student, businessperson, or professional writer—should keep on his or her desk. Filled with professional tips and a wealth of instructive examples, 100 Ways to Improve Your Writing can help solve any writing problem. In this compact, easy-to-use volume you'll find the eternal building blocks of good writing—from grammar and punctuation to topic sentences—as well as advice on challenges such as writer's block and creating a strong title. It is a must-have resource—perfect for reading cover to cover, or just for keeping on hand for instant reference—now updated and refreshed for the first time.

Gary Provost was a writing teacher and the author of more than a thousand published articles and stories. His two dozen books include both adult and YA fiction, and nonfiction such as The Freelance Writer's Handbook. His methods continue to be taught at the semiannual writer's conference he established,

CHAPTER 5. TEN WAYS TO DEVELOP STYLE

Think About Style In any discussion of writing, the word style means the way in which an idea is expressed, not the idea itself. Style is form, not content. A reader usually picks up a story because of content but too often puts it down because of style. There is no subject that cannot be made fascinating by a well-informed and competent writer. And there is no subject that cannot be quickly turned into a literary sleeping pill by an incompetent writer. You probably would not buy Ray Bradbury's book Dandelion Wine if while browsing in the bookstore you turned to version (A). Contrast it with version (B), Bradbury's actual opening paragraph. You will see that while both paragraphs contain the same information, version (B) has style, and that makes all the difference. (A) There wasn't any noise at 6 a.m. and nobody was up yet. The wind was about the way you'd want it, and everything was pretty much okay. If you got up and looked out the window, you could tell that summer was beginning. (B) It was a quiet morning, the town covered over with darkness and at ease in bed. Summer gathered in the weather, the wind had the proper touch, the breathing of the world was long and warm and slow. You had only to rise, lean from your window, and know that this indeed was the first real time of freedom and living, this was the first morning of summer. Listen to What You Write Writing is not a visual art any more than composing is a visual art. To write is to create music The words you write make sounds, and when those sounds are in harmony, the writing will work. So think of your writing as music. Your story might sound like the Hungarian Rhapsody No.2, or it might sound like "Satisfaction." You decide. But give it unity. It should not sound like a musical battle between the Cleveland Symphony Orchestra and the Rolling Stones.