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Title: Wonderful Selection of Essays
Review: Creating Fiction asked various well known writers to write about various topics in writing. Results vary, of course, but there's some great advice in here (mixed with not so great advice - but this happens any time you get a big group of people). I definitely thought that this has a place on most writer's bookshelves (or at least is worth borrowing if you can't find it reasonably inexpensively).More than most books on writing, I liked that this had 1) a fairly large group of novelists who were queried (so the advice was varied) and 2) assigned them all topics so that articles didn't cluster around one facet of writing (i.e. the plot, character building, whatever). In general, a good read.
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