Review: Not What I was Expecting
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 07 22, 2014
This is another "pamphlet book", logging in at about 37 pages. The author is up front about that though, and the $1.49 price isn't out of line.When I first saw the title, I was intrigued since it seems to take a stance completely opposite what the writing community accepts as proper. I decided to read it to see what this maverick author was really advocating.As it turned out, there really isn't any crazy Mirror Universe philosophy here. It's more of a different taking on outlining. Write your book, but when you get to a scene that's going to take a lot of fiddling, rather than get bogged down in the details, list some pertinent events/items and then plow on with the rest of the story. Go back and fill in the blanks after the book is complete.Some examples are included, hence the necessity for more than a couple of pages. I could see this being a useful tool, especially if you find yourself stuck in a particularly difficult scene (maybe a long, complex fight scene), and you're so frustrated that you're at risk of tossing the whole thing aside.I'm giving this "book" three stars for having a decent idea. It's only one idea, though, and doesn't really live up to the title. This isn't about a different style of writing, this is about how to get from Point A to Point B without drowning in a quagmire of description along the way. You DO have to go back and fix all those "tells" eventually, you're just putting that task off for a while.