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From Where You Dream: The Process of Writing Fiction by Robert Olen Butler, Janet Burroway
2.0
I wouldn't normally comment on a book this dreadful, but I will point out there are a few useful bits of advice, or reminders in the first third of the book. These might be helpful to writers if they haven't learned it elsewhere. I'm speaking mostly about characters needing a purpose; a yearning need for something that drives them. And also eliminate filter words from your prose.
A much better book is Janet Burroway's Writing Fiction: A Guide to Narrative Craft.
A much better book is Janet Burroway's Writing Fiction: A Guide to Narrative Craft.
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, January/February 2020 (F&SF, #747) by Karin Lowachee, Alex Irvine, Charles de Lint, Elaine Vilar Madruga, Albert E. Cowdrey, Essa Hansen, Julianna Baggott, Auston Habershaw, Melissa Marr, Michael Cassutt, Jerry Oltion, Naomi Kanakia, Rich Horton, Matthew Hughes, Corey Flintoff, C.C. Finlay
2.0
Unsettling in a bad way this month. Uninteresting stories in general and a few that made me cringe with male gaze problems.
The Best of the Best American Poetry: 25th Anniversary Edition by David Lehman, Robert Pinsky
2.0
The poems from the 1990s selected for this collection don't really stand up for me.
The Corn King and the Spring Queen (The Hera Series) by Naomi Mitchison
4.0
This was an unexpected find at my library. It's epic, yet intimate. The emotion builds subtly until you suddenly realize how much you care about some of the characters.
Odd and the Frost Giants by Neil Gaiman
4.0
There was something about the writing that was as sparse as the land of Midgard and yet so rich and well crafted the story simply grew larger than it seems. It is a heroic tale without bloddy battles about a small boy with an infuriating smile - a smile filled with a confidence such a small and physically weak boy should not have.