Gary Provost

This is the one guide that anyone who writes-whether student, business person, or professional writer-should keep with them whenever they begin to write. Filled with professional tips and a wealth of instructive examples and prompts, this valuable, easy-to-use handbook can help solve any and all writing problems.

For countless millions, Humphrey Bogart's screen performances and real-life persona merged to make him one of the world's most fabled figures-a legend of mythic proportions. Or, as his Sam Spade would have put it-the stuff that dreams are made of.But for his only son, Stephen, eight years old in 1957 when his father died of lung cancer, Humphrey Bogart's giant shadow was a burden he carried until he finally came to understand the private man behind...

Examines the fundamentals of style, character, dialogue, description, and point of view in writing both fiction and nonfiction.