Review: Good Advice.  Rambling Presentation.
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 01 10, 2014
Again, this is a gathering of his online blog posts about writing.  But this collection is full of useful, hard-hitting, no-nonsense advice that definitely will help you grow as a writer.  The problem is that you have to wade through a lot of lunacy to get the writing tips.Each topic is taken to very little depth, but it gets its point across and moves on.  Unfortunately, the author often interrupts himself with silly ideas, profanity, sophomoric references, sexual and scatological metaphors, and off-topic jumps into pornography, poop, unicorns, and a host of other weird ideas.  Meant to be funny or shocking, these interjections often detract from the messages given.  Worse, they cause you to skim or skip ahead--if you don't simply put the book down in frustration.I like Wendig, but his almost bipolar need to be shocking gets annoying in nonfiction.  Check out his books, if you really want an honest approach to writing laid out by a professional who lives the writer's life.  He walks his talk, so you have to respect him.  And . . . some of his perversion is quite funny.  :)  Some.Check outLessons from a Lifetime of Writing: A Novelist Looks at His Craft,On Writing: 10th Anniversary Edition: A Memoir of the Craft,Self-Editing for Fiction Writers, Second Edition: How to Edit Yourself Into Print,Dark Dreamers On Writing (Necon Non Fiction).