Nick's review
If You Want to Write: A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit
by Brenda Ueland
Nick's review
If You Want to Write: A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit by Brenda Ueland
Nick's review
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didnt-finish
Skimmed briefly and didn't finish.
This one was a recommendation from either Will Shetterly's or Emma Bull's site (or maybe from one of their joint ones); it's a motivational/writing advice book written by a Minneapolis woman in the 1930s. It didn't speak to me, so I didn't stick with it. (Although there _was_ one chapter that made me say, "Hey, that sounds just like that aborted LJ post I was writing about John Darnielle's songwriting style and why Michelle Branch totally sucks!" So that was gratifying.)
You might have noticed that I've listed a whole lot of writing advice books in these book report posts, and I thought I'd say something about that. It's not so much that I'm searching for advice to _follow,_ or that I need a manual for finding the inner me and bleeding it onto the page, or whatever the topic happens to be with the manual du jour; it's more that there's this really rough period between the time when you seriously commit to building something worth read...more
This one was a recommendation from either Will Shetterly's or Emma Bull's site (or maybe from one of their joint ones); it's a motivational/writing advice book written by a Minneapolis woman in the 1930s. It didn't speak to me, so I didn't stick with it. (Although there _was_ one chapter that made me say, "Hey, that sounds just like that aborted LJ post I was writing about John Darnielle's songwriting style and why Michelle Branch totally sucks!" So that was gratifying.)
You might have noticed that I've listed a whole lot of writing advice books in these book report posts, and I thought I'd say something about that. It's not so much that I'm searching for advice to _follow,_ or that I need a manual for finding the inner me and bleeding it onto the page, or whatever the topic happens to be with the manual du jour; it's more that there's this really rough period between the time when you seriously commit to building something worth read...more
