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Title: Less than great
Review: My main complaint with this book is that the author seems enamoured of his own writing. The chapters on love scenes and sex scenes, for example, essentially consist of nothing but the author's own fiction used as an example--and quite frankly, his sex scenes aren't all that good. In other respects the book is basically mediocre--with nothing you couldn't find in other writing books--and has very little that deals specifically with fantasy and science fiction. That said, some of the advice, particularly the last chapter about not taking yourself seriously until you've written a million words, does ring true.
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