Samuel Delany's "On Writing"

triciasullivan asked me if I'd seen Samuel Delany's book On Writing and if so what I thought of it.

I own it, although I've only read bits and pieces. I think my daughter borrowed it, but as some of my books are still in moving limbo I'm not sure if she returned it and it is yet to be shelved here or if it dwells somewhere in her apartment over the seas.

Anyway, while I enjoy reading books "on writing" in the general, I find that many of them are really addressed to writers with, well, less exper