Dean Orion

For obvious reasons, I've been reading a lot of non-fiction about writing and its so happens that this pops up in Netgalley. Unfortunately, I had expected more out of this book and it doesn't deliver much. Mostly, because I expected a writing reference, not a memoir on writing experience.

Sure, there are checklist on writing and lists but it was nothing new and quite basic. The most prominent part in this book is about the writer himself which pretty much redundant unless you personally know the author's work or had admiration over him or something. There's a lot of things can be paraphrased without the whole first person narrating.

Personally, I don't want to read about the writer's daily life and stuff since I am not familiar with the writer's work to begin with and a person could just google about on the web for free. I could say it is a turn off unless you're one of those still in that phase of "Can you teach me how to write?" and if there's not much writing books in the market to begin with. Honestly, there's nothing unique about the book unless you are a writer yourself and want to read about a writer's life, maybe that's for you. But I want to read about what I don't already know, and I didn't get any what I don't know from this. So its clearly my issue.

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As a bit of a writer myself I can say that I've read a lot of books on writing. I have a lot to learn still but I read such books to help me hone my craft. The one thing about reading so many of those books is it becomes hard to find a book that gives me new information. Or at least old information in a way that works.

This book manages to do both things well for me. While not the most comprehensive guide to writing it still has useful information geared not just to creative writers but writers of other media. Another thing it does that I think it is in its favor is the summery notes at the end of the chapter.

There is also a whole collection of the summary notes near the end of the book. At first I thought that slightly foolish given that people could just go right to that part and read all the notes. Then I remembered that an actually invested writer wouldn't do that and that to do that would only hurt the reader besides that.

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