Content tagged with "writing"
“Loved this book. Just loved it. It’s a series of short essays on the often tortured art of writing. There are at almost 50 chapters, and in each, the author writes about some specific aspect of the…”
“You need to understand that this isn’t a book about the process of writing (as the title would suggest). This is really a meandering memoir of a particular writer’s life. I keep looking for some…”
“I have no idea why I bought this – I think I just wanted to know how writing about art would be different than anything else. And it was quite good. It very much becomes a general book about writing,…”
“This book is ambitious in trying to teach us all how to write an effective short form, but it’s hit or miss. It’s a firehose of information which sort of defies attempts to read it casually. There’s…”
“One of the greatest books every written on writing. Zinsser strikes the perfect balance between a strategic and tactical approach to what writers do. He mixes good perspective with practical advice….”
“I enjoyed the book, but maybe it should mention that it’s fundamentally about fiction. I was hoping for something about storytelling in a business context, but this is about novels and films and such….”
“Interesting, full of pictures, but it got ponderous. Weirdly long, because it’s basically a picture book, but with a lot of text, so you spend a lot of time starting and ending sections, and looking…”
“I did not write a review for this book.”
“Margot really hits on the thing we all sort of know about content but don’t acknowledge: some content, we just don’t trust, and some content we do. We probably don’t even acknowledge that at any…”
“Robert Caro writes a very particular type of book. He hasn’t written that many, but they were (and are) huge and detailed. He wrote a book called The Power Broker which was a 1,200 biography of the…”
“I abandoned this at about the halfway point, for two reasons: I probably wasn’t the right audience. It’s geared toward more novice writers. It’s fundamentally a book of exercises (the title was pretty…”
“Unfortunately, I didn’t like this book, and it pains me to write this, since I had just finished ‘On Writing Well’ for the third time, and it’s amazing. But this book…it just didn’t do anything for…”
