Review: Like A Drill Sargeant!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 07 12, 2012
Love this book. If it's inspiration you're looking for, you've come to the write place. In 250 Things You Should Know About Writing, you may get slapped around a little, but you will def get the point. Writing isn't for sissies, nor is it for cowards, pantywaists, quitters, namby-pambies, weaklings or wimps. This book is like a drill sargeant yelling in your ear what you need to do to be a writer-in drill sargeant language, not that it doesn't have it's poetic, flowery, kinder side as well, because it does and it offers hope and inspiration as well as down to earth practical advice.I love the advice in this little book, such as this morsel: You put your hand in a whirling clod of wet clay, your're shaping it. Even when you don't mean to. Sometimes you find a shape the way a blind man studies a face. Other times you know the shape at the outset and move your hands to mold the tale.... Plainly speaking, this makes perfect sense and the whole book is like this. The author, at times, may use creative, unconventional euphemisms, but that I guess is what sets this book apart from the normal, conventional, how to write, books. It's the morsels of truth that will get you writing that are important in this little gem, and there are a lot of practical, get you writing morsels that will motivate and arm you with tools to help you as a writer get your big, writer pants on and move forward.