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Title: Writers Take Hope!
Review: As an aspiring writer, I nearly despaired about my prospects of becoming an author after reading Stephen King's book on writing, which struck me as demeaning, but this book not only offered me great technical and artistic ideas, it gave me back my hope. Brooks makes a cohesive argument for doing the tough pre-work of writing up front, which many would say takes away from a story's creativity and spontaneity. Given his excellent body of work, though, his methods were nothing less than compelling for me. I was no more successful in putting this book down than I have been with any of his novels.
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