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This is the second time I've read this book. After the second time through, I now think I will read it every time I start writing a new novel. I can't recommend it highly enough.
I have read a lot of "how to" writing books, always looking for pointers, or hoping from the blurb that the book will solve whatever problem I'm having at the time. Many of them are useful. A lot of them are junk. I have hardly any on my Goodreads shelves because I usually can't bring myself to give other authors bad reviews.
This is the second "Writer's Digest Book" I've read. The other one was excellent too, but in the case of "Characters & Viewpoint" I really wish I'd read it when I was studying literature in university. It describes the various elements of story and how they relate to character in ways that are (I think) usually only apparent to those who have done the deed of writing fiction. In other words, read this and you may understand fiction in ways you never did before.
Written with crystal clarity. Eminently useful. Highly recommended.
I have read a lot of "how to" writing books, always looking for pointers, or hoping from the blurb that the book will solve whatever problem I'm having at the time. Many of them are useful. A lot of them are junk. I have hardly any on my Goodreads shelves because I usually can't bring myself to give other authors bad reviews.
This is the second "Writer's Digest Book" I've read. The other one was excellent too, but in the case of "Characters & Viewpoint" I really wish I'd read it when I was studying literature in university. It describes the various elements of story and how they relate to character in ways that are (I think) usually only apparent to those who have done the deed of writing fiction. In other words, read this and you may understand fiction in ways you never did before.
Written with crystal clarity. Eminently useful. Highly recommended.