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Just finished Self Editing For Fiction Writers.
Some good stuff about the pitfalls of bad writing. How to pace dialog with beats etc. Speech attribution. Show V tell and the like.
However, I found some parts really frustrating - Quite a few places their 'improved' versions to me had completely different takes on the original, which jarred somewhere in the back of my mind.
All that being said, it has taught me some interesting things. It's a shame it's not available digitally (so far)
Some good stuff about the pitfalls of bad writing. How to pace dialog with beats etc. Speech attribution. Show V tell and the like.
However, I found some parts really frustrating - Quite a few places their 'improved' versions to me had completely different takes on the original, which jarred somewhere in the back of my mind.
All that being said, it has taught me some interesting things. It's a shame it's not available digitally (so far)