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Title: OVER RATED INAPPLICABLE
Review: An intellectual giant, as works of intellect go, but ultimately somewhat solopsistic. Ideas are thrown around but often without purchase. The chapter on substance never defines substance. As a writing tool, it leaves you wondering. How the hell do you negate a negation. A brilliant idea, but just how do you do it?This book is full of excellent notions, but they're developed for the lecture circuit, rather than the act of writing. It's a bloody good mind trip, worth a read, and definitely you should buy it. If you engage with the ideas, they will stretch you. But if you're looking for books that'll help you write, buy: Anatomy of a Screenplay and Jeff Kitchen's four tools of dramatic writing book.This book is a very dangerous book in the hand of development executives. Put in the cupboard with John Truby -- for writers only. No acolytes. Please.
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