Review: A Pro Shares His Wisdom
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 12 16, 2013
The thing I like about this book is that it is direct,short and right to the point with good examples. I have a big old 500 page Gregg Reference Manual that I get lost in the vast amount of information (in the index).It's just too much. Spencer's book on how to punctuate dialogue is specific. Sort of like Little Red Riding Hood trying to choose which bowl of porridge to eat while visiting the three bears crib. The little bowl was just right.The index at the opening of the book provides a list of 20 topics that are covered making it easy to refer back when an issue arises during your writing. I was never interested in dangling participles or ending sentences with propositions and other rules of composition. Thus my letters of rejection often were filled with witticisms like "your short story appears to have been plagiarized from graffiti on a bridge overpass."Maybe now with Spencer's little book at least my dialogue will be punctuated correctly.