Review: Old Advice Given Without Passion
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 02 14, 2013
This book is useful to beginners.  Maybe.  It is a compilation of small essays that do not go in depth and tend to be more amusing than helpful.  In fact, most of this advice can be gleaned from a few Google searches.  If you truly need help with your craft, check out the books by Stephen King, David Morrell, Sol Stein (even though he is a snob and selfish self-promoter), Betsey Lerner, and Ralph Keyes.  You will get a plethora of ideas from those professionals.  Guaranteed.  This book feels like a quaint magazine article in a writing magazine.  As we know, we get roped into reading them and come out with barely an insight.