Friday, August 9, 2013

Writing for You: A Novelist's Guide to the Craft of Fiction by Victoria Grefer

 Writing For You: A Novelist's Guide to the Craft of Fiction by Victoria Grefer was a book I found helpful. That author shows us that we should write for ourselves. She tells us that writing is truly for the writer. Victoria, also shows us that we should respect our readers and not insult their intelligence through over explanation but also that we should not assume the reader knows everything by leaving out too much.

 I appreciated that there was a chapter on style, due to it being a good refresher for me. One of the chapters I liked was on "Social Media Marketing," because I personally only use a few main sites and I learned about other sites that I think would be of interest to authors and bloggers alike.

 One of my favorite lines from the book is when the author is speaking of our "inner editor", known as Eeyore by the author, and how to ignore it when we need to keep writing. When you need help to keep writing, "...picture Dory the fish from Finding Nemo slapping Eeyore across the nose with her tail fin while chanting, "Just keep writing, just keep writing, just keep writing, writing, writing." Seriously." I laughed out loud when I read it, and picturing Dory and Eeyore works.

 The only criticism that I have for this book is that throughout the book the author tells us again and again to read On Writing by Stephen King. Now, I'm sure On Writing is a good book, but for me I felt it was a tad much. However, I do no think that it was so much that I could not give this book five out of five stars, as it was well written and engaging for the reader.

 Overall, I thought this book was a great read and would be helpful to anyone to give them better writing. I believe this book would be good even for those who do not aspire to being novelists.

 I acknowledge that I received this book for free in a Goodreads giveaway and this is my unbiased opinion of the book.

What is your favorite thing to write? Poetry, fiction, articles, blogs?

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~Rose

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