Review: Good Read For Aspiring/New Writers. Read This Or Else
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 08 16, 2012
Few people know that fiction writing has been an interest of mine for years. I've long daydreamed about seriously trying to get something published for almost as long. Recently I've looked into reading tips (never get to the point where you seriously don't consider there's nothing else to learn) about writing for someone like me. Soon enough, I discovered this. As a new Kindle owner, I would be crazy to pass this up.Write Good or Die is a book for aspiring writers. In it you'll find numerous essays by many different writers, such as Kevin J. Anderson, who have been in the writing business for years. Each writer and essay discusses different aspects of the writing business from agents and editors to characters, plots, and names, being persistent, and pitfalls common for new writers to avoid. As the book points out at one point, even Stephen King, unarguably one of the most famous American writers of our time, at one time was an unknown writer who had written five novels before his first one was published.The book is put together from the POV of numerous writers. I think this was a definite plus. It serves those new (or aspiring) writers better than from just one person. As even the book says, no one thing necessarily works for every single person.I would recommend checking this out. Each essay is simple to read and understand and everyone could learn something here.