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Title: "Does he smell the shirt's armpit?"
Review: Peck captures the essence of writing in the very first chapter. In it, as he pokes and prods you to think of HOW a character is constructed, he asks you to ask questions so that you KNOW your character, make your characters human and REAL. His character-in-residence is named Stanley. Peck asks about Stanley, even going so far as to ask: Does he [Stanley] smell the shirt's armpit?That's REAL. Even now, you have an answer about what Stanley is like. You know him in just six short words.Peck continues in the same bantering and yet so-sharp way throughout his book. He gives you hints and pushes, he dares you to think and really know your story and your characters and your place of story.For everyone who is serious about writing fiction (heck, it would work in non-fiction, too!), get this book. Forget the dry and dull and textbook-feel of so many other books. Peck gets his points across without a dull moment in it.
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