Lessons from a Lifetime of Writing: A Novelist Looks at His Craft

Rating:
Summary: Master Class
Review: Taking nothing away from other contributions to the form -- Stephen King's "Memoir;" Dorthea Brande's classic -- David Morrell's stands apart: Not only how-to but also why: Why do it? from a long-time (former) English professor who writes with a golden pen. The same clearness one knows from Morrell fiction is here, too. Details of what to read and how to find one's own story; insider's info about the business of writing, from the money and its terms to the relationship and role of an agent; literary techniques one has to consider (voice, point of view, structure) and all of it built on the need and process for telling stories. In a writing style that is so good that were Morrell not as fine a teacher as he is writer, one can't not feel safe to ask and answer one's own Truths: Why do it?

Master Class indeed.