A book on writing style?

I'm looking for a book that focuses primarily on writing style.

I've read about every book on structure, format, and story...but none of them talk much about how to better your descriptive passages or how to develop your voice as a writer.

I would just assume that there's an advanced book on this topic somewhere out there.

Just wondering if anyone can recommend something along these lines.

Nope. There aren't any.

I think the best thing to do is to read 100 scripts. Start with all the Academy Award nominated scripts (best original and best adapted) in the last 20 years.

That is 40. Then read some specific to a certain genre. Like Sixth Sense or Lethal Weapon. That way, you get a sense of how people break rules.

boo! I want easy answers, and I want them now.

But I had a feeling that was coming. Thanks for breaking it soft.

I guess I'll start alphabetically

www.scriptsales.com/BkRvw...Style.html is a review of a book Elements of Style. But to be honest, despite the raving reviews (some of which are from some very important people in the screenwriting game) I found this book a waste of money, compared to what information is out there already and for free.

Trying visiting www.screentalk.org and print off some recent SP's and drool over their "style" of writing. That site is a great source of screenplays, many of which you can study for the style in which they were written.

Happy huntings,

EJ

On finding your style. Finding your own voice. The reason there are no books is that it is difficult to sell a book that is one paragraph long.

There is no secret. No magic formula for finding your way with words. Just this:

You have to write. All the time. For a long time. You have to love it. You have to love the writing and the tinkering and the polishing and the fact that you are going to delete 50-90% of what you write because you are willing to sacrifice brilliant dialogue and cute turns of phrase and even small animals to the essence of story itself. It is your sense of story, more than your dialogue, that will be your voice... your style. And you'll know it when you have it.