Review: All meat, no fat
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 18, 2013
I dislike writing books that ramble on & go off on side tangents so that you never get a focused exploration of the topic.  This book is short b/c it doesn't water down its focus & waste time trying to cover the entire world of writing.  It jumps into explaining how to "tell" right away, then provides examples on fleshing those tells out into full scenes.  And the examples are well written, reassuring me that "those who can't do, teach" doesn't apply here.It was well worth the money to me.  I find myself bored reading through most writing books and mostly try to skim for the most pertinent information.  But with this book being so short, I've read it multiple times already & plan another read through soon.  But the real proof is in the pudding.  I've been too busy to write for the past few weeks, but am in the research phase of a new story.  I plan to use "telling" to write this draft and see how it goes (hopefully this new story will stay out of my unfinished works graveyard - which has grown over the years).  I hope to come back and update this review with my results.As for now, I look forward to reading more instruction books from this writer.