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A Bit too Mystical and Patronizing,
This review is from: Mastering Fiction Writing (Hardcover)
This book claims to be "practical", but I'm afraid it isn't very. Instead, it's full of self-indulgent fluff.Ms. Reed sets the tone in chapter 1: "Sources: Where I Think Fiction Comes From". True to its title, the chapter is mostly a bunch of personal opinion--generally vague, mystical ones like, "Be willing to bring everything you know and are to the typewriter". The only truly useful point in the chapter is also an obvious point: fiction comes from the writer's experiences. The book also contains some useful information about writing. But the useful information is all fairly obvious: either inane observations or else the same suggestions you will find in a hundred other books on writing. Nothing that really makes it worth plunging through the "I thinks" and the personal anecdotes--unless you are as fascinated with Kit Reed as Kit Reed seems to be. |
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Mastering Fiction Writing by Kit Reed (Hardcover - Oct. 1991)
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