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| Author: William E. Blundell
Publisher: Plume
Category: Book
List Price: $14.95
Buy New: $10.17
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Rating:  19 reviews
Sales Rank: 38621
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 272
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 7.8 x 5.3 x 0.8
ISBN: 0452261589
Dewey Decimal Number: 808.02
EAN: 9780452261587
Publication Date: November 29, 1988
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| Customer Reviews:
 A storyteller's Bible---surely the best such book available August 12, 1999
18 out of 18 found this review helpful
Contains a lifetime's worth of information---and inspiration. I've read it twice, and dip into it periodically because it contains so much truth. I was a journalist for ten years, and have read a fair number of how-to-write books, but nothing I've seen is in the same league with Blundell's work. He provides a comprehensive system for organizing material and for sharpening and vivifying a story to a professional level. While it may be true that beyond a certain point good writing cannot be taught, there are definitely techniques to master and mistakes to avoid. Apply Blundell's principles and your writing will almost have to improve.
The Best book on writing January 19, 2000
14 out of 14 found this review helpful
Bill Blundell was the writing coach at the Wall Street Journal, and I have to tell you that the two days of instruction I received from him contained the bst advice about writing I've ever had. It was better than an entire year I spent at the Columbia University School of Journalism (which itself wasn't bad). If you marvel at the writing in the Wall Street Journal, and want to emulate it, Blundell's book is the place to start. He's a superb story teller, with a great sense for humanity.
Absolutely the best how-to for nonfiction writers January 16, 1996
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
Most how-to writing books assume you've collected everything you need to know about the subject and just need to work the passive voice out of your prose--or that you're suffering from writer's block and need to free the artist within. Blundell assumes you first have to gather information, then integrate it into a story that moves readers along. I was fortunate enough to be in his first Wall Street Journal class for new reporters. In his absence, I recommend this book to all would-be nonfiction writers
 Yaaaaaaaawn September 1, 2000
9 out of 48 found this review helpful
This book is not very good.The author keeps on repeating that you should make your articles catchy, interesting, and not boring, yet when you read the book, you can barely stay focused. It's not the examples of articles that are boring, but the style he uses to write the book itself. When I was reading it, my mind kept on wandering about any other thought that popped in my head, and I always had to re-read the last paragraph because I could'nt pay attention, and by the way, this has never happened to any other book I've read. Actually, after I read a few chapters of the book I started reading another one called, How to Write Articles for Magazines and Newspapers, and I did not have the same problem. All in all, if you can relax, read it very slowly, and have a lot of time on your hand, I guess it is not too terrible.
The real thing. December 5, 1998
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
There are books on grammar, books on news reporting, and dictionaries. Now for something completely different: This is the only book I've read that really tells you how to write great copy for a newspaper. It's the best.
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