Review: To read over and over and to keep coming back!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 10 13, 2013
Any Mary Buckham's book on writing is an insurance of great teaching skills. I was lucky enough to get an advanced reader copy so I could read it before it was even out. I enjoyed it thoroughly and I know it will be, together with its companions, one of the books I return once and again.What I find most useful is the process she describes as examples from first draft to second draft and published version. It is a very pedagogic way to understand that your first draft just needs the facts and you can better it draft after draft.Another interesting tool is the dissection of the final fragments while showing what each word or part of the sentence accomplishes. It makes me think about descriptions and using setting in different ways and spins my mind towards my story not once but multiple times while reading it.