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nataliemat000's review
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***I received this book in exchange for an honest review.
I was very excited to receive this book.
My nerdy heart let out a pitter-patter at the sight of the number of chapters it had. It wasn’t until I started reading that I realized just how short the ‘chapters’ were. Having finished this book, I feel a bit torn. I appreciate that the author went straight to the point and covered a lot of subjects, but I often felt I was missing vital information I needed to fully understand what he was discussing.
This book is good for those starting to write who are looking into points of what makes a story better or worse. This might not be the book for someone who wants to do a deep dive into what you can do to make your story better. In other words, it listed qualities of both good books and bad books but did not give many tips on how to reach those qualities you want in your own writing.
Although it did not go as deep as I would have liked, he made some good points and had some good thoughts that I can appreciate as an aspiring author. This one, in particular, opened my mind a little more about what writing really is:
“I didn’t sit in front of a typewriter and write thirty pages a day in some formulaic fashion because in my mind that’s not writing, that’s typing. I simply pointed my imagination towards the story and jotted or typed notes when something fell into place, no matter where I was.”
I was very excited to receive this book.
My nerdy heart let out a pitter-patter at the sight of the number of chapters it had. It wasn’t until I started reading that I realized just how short the ‘chapters’ were. Having finished this book, I feel a bit torn. I appreciate that the author went straight to the point and covered a lot of subjects, but I often felt I was missing vital information I needed to fully understand what he was discussing.
This book is good for those starting to write who are looking into points of what makes a story better or worse. This might not be the book for someone who wants to do a deep dive into what you can do to make your story better. In other words, it listed qualities of both good books and bad books but did not give many tips on how to reach those qualities you want in your own writing.
Although it did not go as deep as I would have liked, he made some good points and had some good thoughts that I can appreciate as an aspiring author. This one, in particular, opened my mind a little more about what writing really is:
“I didn’t sit in front of a typewriter and write thirty pages a day in some formulaic fashion because in my mind that’s not writing, that’s typing. I simply pointed my imagination towards the story and jotted or typed notes when something fell into place, no matter where I was.”
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