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I didn't read this cover to cover. But I don't think it was meant to be read like that. It's been sitting around and I picked it up once in a while and now that my bookmark has found its way to the back I'm shelving it.This one is really mistitled. It is certainly not a guide of any sort. It is a collection of excerpts of interviews and other peoples writings that may or may not inspire the reader. It is a cool looking book that is well bound and nearly pointless.
This took me six months to finish. It's not a how-to book, but rather a collection of author interview snippets arranged by theme: beginnings, character, research, etc. Illuminating stuff, all told from the what-I-do perspective, rather than an instructional perspective. I read the whole thing with a notebookbeside me.
Comprised of excerpts from past Glimmer Train interviews, this book and its companion (Glimmer Train Guide to Writing Fiction: Inspiration & Discipline) are best for dipping into over time, rather than reading all at once.
found this to be boring. didn't finish it . . . sad that i bought it. i think perhaps at another time it would have been great for me to read, but i am tired of reading about writer's processes. maybe that's a good thing - maybe it means less reading about other writers and more writing myself?
it's okay...kinda' scattershot...but not bad when you're brain is on pause.
Glimmer Train is a terrific literary magazine run by 2 sisters. They actually give free writing advice in their e-newsletters, but I read better from a printed page, so I bought this book.
Full of gems.
First of all, this is a beautiful book—beautifully bound and gorgeous layout and typography. It is also quite fascinating at times. The problem, is that I (and I assume most people) will not know most of the authors. The book has it's share of heavy hitters, but the majority I've never heard of, or I've heard of them and never read their work. This doesn't have to be a problem, but the entries are clearly excerpts from longer interviews about particuar books in which the assumption is that you h...
I'm trying to read this, but it's like when you order a burger and it looks really good on the menu but then it's so big and overstuffed because they put way too much of each ingredient on it and also the meat itself is way bigger than it needs to be so as you eat it it just falls all over the plate and your hands and turns into a big mess that you can't really finish, at least not in any normal burger-eating way.I am bored. There is so much here, and I'm not sure most of it is any good. It's an...
