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luv me a craft book

I’m struggling to read a book by a popular, prolific author. Instead of simply DNF-ing that book I picked up another on the craft of writing.

So far THIS book is insightful. The suggestions and examples make sense. I’m using the tools within this book to improve my own writing.

My eyes are burning but this book is incredibly helpful for one of my classes.

Invaluable, and explains better than professors have so far.

wish i’d read this before the last book i copy edited! ha ha. ha.

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To put things another way from my last update, it’s like those drawing books that go from a blob to a dog-looking shape to a completely finished dog. Maybe those problems will be tackled in later sections, and again, the book is very detailed and good. Something is still off about it for me.

It’s a very good book, but I’m not sure if it should be read through like a regular book or read in small bits. It also explains similar concepts under different headings so I don’t quite know what precisely is going on in some cases. Maybe if multiple examples were in the same place, we could see what’s happening.

Quick to read and easy to understand, this book gives practical tools to solve the challenge of showing and not just telling in you friction writing.

I wish there was more information on how to "tell" properly. There were 3 sections on when it's okay to "tell," but hardly any examples in them. The "Telling to Convey Necessary Information" just instructs us to weave the tells in seamlessly. This would have been a good time to follow the "show, don't tell" rule and actually show us what good telling entails.

Ahh, this is the "Show, Don't Tell" manual I really needed when I was still starting my draft!! I'm just beginning this book, and I've already improved several passages in my current draft.

Just a great book every writer should read until they have got down the fundamentals of showing more, and telling less!

This book explains "show, don't tell" and provides easy to understand examples.

Finally, a book about writing that I can actually apply while I'm writing and editing.

Very useful

This book is helpful, but, at the same time, it doesn't half give me a headache.