Review: Practical and Inspiring
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 09 28, 2013
I bought this book nearly a year ago and am writing this review now because I've been too busy laughing my face off. Okay, well, I was also doing other stuff. A recent reread of Endless Joke was the real impetus for me writing it now.As a writer who aspires to one day publish or be published (or die penniless and alone with a jam-packed hard drive), I found in this book refreshingly practical advice on writing, editing, navigating the Indie world and, of course, Valley Girls. Unlike most writers' manuals, Endless Joke puts the modern writer's life in a realistic perspective, including all the hilarious, frightening, head-scratching, ridiculous and sometimes even triumphant things that can happen on the way to becoming a published author.Most importantly, David Antrobus, an Indie soldier himself, reports these pearls from the trenches; he may be out of uniform, moon-walking all over the battlefield like a mad genius trying to unify a troop of punks, but he sure knows of which he writes. And he wants us to know it's okay to give the finger to some "Twenty-Five Writing Tips That Probably Suck" and that you can still keep on rolling even when you're "Armless and Legless".There. I feel better now. Imma read it again.