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Ok, honesty being the best policy, even though I get the feeling Mr Wendig might beat the crap out of me for it, here goes.
This is a good book, but it's not the book you think you're buying.
If you're an aspiring writer and are on the constant hunt for that elusive book to transform you into a god of wordsmithery, or even just help you be a little better at it, this is not it. There is a lot of valuable insight in this book, although a lot of it will be common sense to you if you're already deep in the word-mines, but there will certainly be titbits you'd not considered before.
The problem with offering teachings in the way this book lays it out is that it's a scattergun approach. There are 1001 bullet points, each a paragraph, peppered with almost as many bad puns, making it impossible to retain the information given. You really need a narrative flow to activate your memory, at least most of us do, it's like trying to learn the alphabet from a jumble of random letters instead of from A to Z. Not impossible perhaps, but bloody hard work.
The man knows his stuff, I'll give you that, but still, I think this is more a book of entertainment for those who like to write, than tutelage to make you better at it.
This is a good book, but it's not the book you think you're buying.
If you're an aspiring writer and are on the constant hunt for that elusive book to transform you into a god of wordsmithery, or even just help you be a little better at it, this is not it. There is a lot of valuable insight in this book, although a lot of it will be common sense to you if you're already deep in the word-mines, but there will certainly be titbits you'd not considered before.
The problem with offering teachings in the way this book lays it out is that it's a scattergun approach. There are 1001 bullet points, each a paragraph, peppered with almost as many bad puns, making it impossible to retain the information given. You really need a narrative flow to activate your memory, at least most of us do, it's like trying to learn the alphabet from a jumble of random letters instead of from A to Z. Not impossible perhaps, but bloody hard work.
The man knows his stuff, I'll give you that, but still, I think this is more a book of entertainment for those who like to write, than tutelage to make you better at it.