Review: Wow, What Wild, Wacky, Wonderfully Worthwhile Words from Wendig. A Winner!
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 08 13, 2012
I bought this book because of the 1 star review it got, not its many 5 stars. Why? Because I wanted to read what upset that lady so much. And now I'm mad as well, because this book is so darned good, that I couldn't put it down. So I had to cook dinner and eat it without even letting go of my iPad. And I found I drank far more wine than normal while reading it...right through to the end.You will learn more about plot, about character, about sentence structure, about novel writing and writing screenplays than you thought there was to learn. As an author, I thought I knew some stuff about writing. But hey, there are a few things I didn't know - actually many things. Things about Dialogue, Diction and Deconstruction to rebuild your book - in fact about almost anything you would want to know about writing...and lots more besides. What Chuck thinks about being a writer sent me batshit crazy for a while, but I guess I will hang in here with other writers for a bit longer.What Mister Wendig Writes are Wonderful Words of Wisdom for Writers, Wrapped around humour, profanity and self aggradisement (is that a word?) There is even a reference to a song in South Pacific which opened in Sydney this week. See if you can find it?I wanted to give this book 1 star, in the hope that that would sell many more copies. Then I thought, no darn it, give it the 5 f%$#ing stars it deserves. But then I found the one typo in the whole m-f book, and karma - like, it is in the 3rd point of the editing section. Suck that up. So I will remove one star for that. Then I thought I would take one more star off, so my 3 star review would stand alone in the table.This book will become my writing bible. I will refer to it often, most probably more often than I think of Jesus - who also gets a few mentions, not as the main hero of the book but as a worthwhile assistant. It is a read that will make you laugh out loud - oh yes that reminds me - from the beginning I found that I was reading it out loud so that my eyes and my ears could double my enjoyment of the purple, profane, prose that peppers the poignant points on each page. So yeah, did I mention that he uses the f-word a lot in the book. Be warned, be weaned and be wisened. This is a winner. Go grab a copy before they sell out. Oh yeah, it's a Kindle book. Oh well. You know what I mean.