A review by ckiyoko
From Where You Dream: The Process of Writing Fiction by Robert Olen Butler

2.0

Butler's got occasional moments of brilliance (genuinely, the approach of plot as "yearning challenged and thwarted" fundamentally changed how I approach revision), but for every nugget of brilliance is pages and pages of shit brain fungus where he jerks himself off endlessly. These lectures feel more like performance art for the audience of one (himself) than actual feedback and concepts he hopes to impart on his students.

I also am inherently distrustful of any white person who claims to have "Vietnamesed" themself by *checks notes* being a spy in Vietnam during the Vietnam War.