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Summary: One of the best writing books
Review: My copy is dog-eared and full of high-lighted notations. As a fiction writer, I wanted a guide to help me write more vivid scenes. This book showed me how to use sensory details without overloading the reader. It also shows how to make your reader become a part of your story by mixing action and description. The book is not only for fiction writers. Her concepts are also applicable to non-fiction, essay, memoir, and poetry writing. Each chapter includes writing practice exercises. It's not a typical how-to write book which focuses on the "rules of writing." It's a must-have for anyone who writes anything.
~Rita Marie Keller, author of LIVING IN THE CITY
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Summary: Keeping the pencil sharp
Review: This book has been a godsend to me. It's been enormously helpful in doing the final edit of my novel. Reading it made me feel like I had my own personal editor. The conversational tone of the book is inviting, nurturing, and encouraging. Any discussion of point of view usually makes me groan, but the way Rebecca McClanahan writes about it is exceptionally sane, enthralling even. The author is a master teacher, writer, and reader. Rebecca McClanahan is generous in sharing the secrets of her fine craft. This book would be fabulous for intermediate to advanced writers to read at least once a year to help keep the pencil sharp. The writing exercises are provocative and creative. This book showed me many things I would never have learned on my own. It made me want to be a better writer.
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Summary: Effective lessons
Review: This book taught me a lot of different techniques on how to be more descriptive with my writing. Recommended.
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