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New Ideas for Old Tropes

Characters, Emotion & Viewpoint by Nancy Kress

March 4, 2022 by sabian30 Leave a Comment

Nancy Kress is a well-known writing instructor. I was in a lecture just like week where the instructor quoted Ms. Kress. She’s an easy educator to read. Her style is smooth and conversational. In this book, subtitled “Techniques and Exercises for Crafting Dynamic Characters and Effective Viewpoints” she deals with the more common aspects of writing: developing characters, showing them emoting, and the different points of view you can use as a writer when telling your character’s story. Her format is easy to read and […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: #writing, Characters, emotion, nancy kress, Viewpoint

sabian30's CBR14 Review No:8 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: #writing, Characters, emotion, nancy kress, Viewpoint ·
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Where Do You Get Your Story Ideas?

Story Behind the Book, Volume 3 by edited by Kristijan Meic and Ivana Steiner

March 4, 2022 by sabian30 Leave a Comment

This short collection of author essays by speculative fiction writers is an informative little series. Inside the 37 authors describe why and how they wrote their respective books (or series of books). At only a page or two, the excerpts seem more like introductions to their books then lengthy information on their writing processes, but the insights into the way they write is inspiring and interesting. I’m ashamed to say I only recognized one of the writers, Adrian Tchikovsky, because of his Children of Time […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: #writing, edited by Kristijan Meic and Ivana Steiner, Story Ideas

sabian30's CBR14 Review No:7 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: #writing, edited by Kristijan Meic and Ivana Steiner, Story Ideas ·
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Fear, to a great extent, is born of a story we tell ourselves…

The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron

January 5, 2022 by carmelpie 2 Comments

“Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.” ― Salvador Dali I got this book early last year when I was trying to be more creative, but in the most structured way possible. One thing I fear, which I think many of us fear, is doing something badly. We fear that we will start something, it will be bad, and that means that we are bad at it so what’s the point of even trying? This book is exactly what I needed. It’s […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: #writing, Julia Cameron, Self-help

carmelpie's CBR14 Review No:2 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: #writing, Julia Cameron, Self-help ·
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Neil Gaiman is My Chesterson

The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction by Neil Gaiman

November 18, 2021 by Ale Leave a Comment

I’ve had The View from the Cheap Seats on my TBR for a long time. For once, the university library had a book I actually wanted to read, so I checked it out while waiting for my local library request to come in. Gaiman’s collected nonfiction rides the gamut from his introductions to many novels, to speeches given at award ceremonies and conventions and interviews from his career as a journalist, as well as musings on writing and recollections on the people and books that have […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: #Gaiman, #writing, essays, interviews, Neil Gaiman, speeches, writing about writing

Ale's CBR13 Review No:23 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: #Gaiman, #writing, essays, interviews, Neil Gaiman, speeches, writing about writing ·
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“Some werewolves are hairy on the inside.”

Danse Macabre by Stephen King

July 29, 2021 by narfna Leave a Comment

This was good, but it is very dated. He focuses on horror in the thirty year period of the 1950’s to the 1980’s, although he does have a foreword to the latest edition where he brings up more modern movies, but that’s only about thirty pages, and the rest of the 400 pages are still focused on horror that was all released before I was born (and I’ve never liked it enough to seek any of it out). It’s also less interesting to me personally […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Horror, Non-Fiction Tagged With: #memoir, #writing, danse macabre, film, horror, narfna, non fiction, Stephen King

narfna's CBR13 Review No:111 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Horror, Non-Fiction · Tags: #memoir, #writing, danse macabre, film, horror, narfna, non fiction, Stephen King ·
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The Plot of The Plot is a Very Good Plot

The Plot by Jean Hanff Korelitz

July 9, 2021 by msvreadsbooks Leave a Comment

Who owns a story? A plot? That is the core issue of this novel. Jacob Finch Bonnen is a struggling writer who has fallen into teaching creative writings in MFA programs after publishing two novels. The first was well received and landed him on a list of new and noteworthy authors, and his second basically confirmed his place in the obscurity that can only be experienced by the once-great.  During a low-residency MFA program, he meets a student who changes his life. Evan Parker is […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: #writing, authors, Jean Hanff Korelitz, Korelitz, MFA, The Plot, Writers

msvreadsbooks's CBR13 Review No:30 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: #writing, authors, Jean Hanff Korelitz, Korelitz, MFA, The Plot, Writers ·
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  • esmemoria on What Else Would You Look With?I wonder if the audio brings out the best in the novel. The last part of the book was pretty great, but I had so...
  • narfna on What Else Would You Look With?Sad you didn't really like this one. I absolutely loved it. Not sure when I will be able to wrap my head around reviewing it....
  • narfna on And now, jump back hundreds and hundreds of years…#BlameMalin on this one for me, too, because she literally sent me a copy.
  • narfna on “And that very same evening—that very same evening—Lord Edgware dies. Good title that, by the way. Lord Edgware Dies. Look well on a book stall.”That's gotta be the new headcanon.
  • drmllz on “And that very same evening—that very same evening—Lord Edgware dies. Good title that, by the way. Lord Edgware Dies. Look well on a book stall.”I like to think the wife packs Hastings off to England to hang out with Poirot and enjoys having a whole ranch to herself...
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