A review by zhelana
Fiction Writer's Workshop by Josip Novakovich

3.0

I think I'm getting to a point with all these creative writing workshop type books where nothing new can be said. Everyone is repeating the same advice as the last 10 authors I read. Perhaps it is time to stop reading writers workshop type books at least for a while. That said, the first several chapters of this book were good, but it had diminishing goodness as it went on. The writing in the chapters seemed repetitive from other books I've read, but there were some good (and some really good in the first chapters) exercises that the author came up with. I probably could have avoided reading the book and just done the writing exercises and come away with just as much from this book. Anyway, I'll give it 3 stars for the writing exercises even though the text wasn't that great. I think maybe I'm going to read a book about a different art instead of writing now.