A classic practical guide and manual which tells the aspiring writer everything about writing a publishable first novel.
The author of Room at the Top writes candidly about craft, technique, and the writer's routine. A great book for anyone trying to figure out how to tackle the complicated problem of writing a novel.
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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0
Helpful book for writers:
I think Braine offers helpful suggestions for those who want to writer readable and sellable fiction. His provides insights learned from experience writing and reading. He is careful to emphasize that what he advises is what has worked for him and what he has learned and that it is not gospel. But, he does offer some practical do's and don't's regarding writing, especially when discussing technical things like writing narrative, dialogue, and different points of view. He inserts many poignant examples... more info
Direction:
I have to agree with everything the only other reviewer has said. He has not written anything about this book that I can disagree with. I am an aspiring writer, but I have the misfortune of being overly critical of the suppositions and speculations presented to me as far as HOW to write goes. Over the years I have read many books concerning how to write the great book. Braine's book has been in my library for years. The whole conversation in the first chapter with Sinclair Lewis asking, "Hands up, all those... more info
writing well:
The author states in his forward, "This is a practical manual, a conducted tour of my workshop. The workshop is scruffy-I imagine it as a ramshackle wooden hut on the wrong side of town, every piece of machinery makeshift and battered-but somehow or other the work is done there, and done on time. The rules which I write by are rules of thumb, rough guides rather than precise instructions. I didn't formulate them before I wrote my first novel; I stumbled across them in the process of writing." This is a... more info
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