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A review by the_badger
Story Genius: How to Use Brain Science to Go Beyond Outlining and Write a Riveting Novel by Lisa Cron
2.0
I really wanted to like this book and find it helpful.
The advertised science is not present, you really must suspend your disbelief and I tried.
There are some bold statements in the book, like plotting and pantsing are both wrong.
Cron presents her way as the right way to write. But I don't think there is such a thing.
What she offers here is more of a rephrasing of what you probably already know.
What good points are there, they are buried under bloated writing in meandering chapters with little structure and could have been stated clearly in a fraction of the pages.
There are whole realms of great novels that do not fit the scheme she presents.
Last point that should have been a bit of a red flag to me: She's not a fiction writer, but writing about it.
The advertised science is not present, you really must suspend your disbelief and I tried.
There are some bold statements in the book, like plotting and pantsing are both wrong.
Cron presents her way as the right way to write. But I don't think there is such a thing.
What she offers here is more of a rephrasing of what you probably already know.
What good points are there, they are buried under bloated writing in meandering chapters with little structure and could have been stated clearly in a fraction of the pages.
There are whole realms of great novels that do not fit the scheme she presents.
Last point that should have been a bit of a red flag to me: She's not a fiction writer, but writing about it.