Title: For Type A personalities with no love for story telling
Product review: This book is a textbook and it feels like one from beginning to end. "Pedantic" is a gross understatement. The exercises are useful but I think a budding writer might find this program more harmful than helpful, in it's desire to make sure you're always following his rules. In the end his approach might get you some ideas.. but not before it sucks all the fun out of the creative process.If, on the other hand, you are a type A personality who really wants a rigid set of rules so you can feel secure in tackling something creative, maybe this will work for you. But my impression is that the aim of the book is to make storytelling so complicated and boring that he wants you to give up writing by the time you finish reading it. I'm a writer who buys all these books as way of refreshing my process and finding new inspiration. "Inspiring" this book is not.
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