Book Review: David Crystal’s Spell It Out: The Curious, Enthralling, and Extraordinary Story of English Spelling
A tour through the history of English with 37 chapters to answer: “Why is English spelling so difficult?”
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Book Review: James Scott Bell’s The Art of War for Writers: Fiction Writing Strategies, Tactics, and Exercises
The ultimate battle plan and more – it’s Sun Tzu’s “The Art of War” for novelists and features timeless, innovative, and concise writing strategies and focused exercises.
Book Review: Les Edgerton’s Hooked: Write Fiction That Grabs Readers at Page One & Never Lets Them Go
How to create the hook to drag your readers in and keep them fascinated and more about how to begin your story.
Book Review: Charles Baxter’s The Art of Subtext: Beyond Plot
Fiction writer and essayist Charles Baxter’s The Art of Subtext: Beyond Plot discusses and illustrates the hidden subtextual overtones and undertones in fictional works haunted by the unspoken, the suppressed, and the secreted. Baxter explains how fiction writers create those visible and invisible details, how what is displayed evokes what is not displayed.
Book Review: Dr. Linda N. Edelstein’s Writer’s Guide to Character Traits
‘The Writer’s Guide to Character Traits’ profiles the mental, emotional and physical qualities of dozens of different personality types. The guide also includes a section on child personality types.
Book Review: Tracy Kidder & Richard Todd’s Good Prose: The Art of Nonfiction
Good Prose explores three major nonfiction forms: narratives, essays, and memoirs. Kidder and Todd draw candidly, sometimes comically, on their own experience—their mistakes as well as accomplishments—to demonstrate the pragmatic ways in which creative problems get solved. This useful book that is the perfect companion for anyone who loves to read good books and longs to write one.
Book Review: Becky Burckmyer’s Awesome Grammar
A short and succinct take on English grammar which dives deep in some areas and skims over others.
Book Review: Jan Tschichold’s The Form of the Book: Essays on the Morality of Good Design
I received this book for free from in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.The Form of the Book: Essays on the Morality of Good Designby Jan TschicholdIt is part of the Classic Typography series and is a non-fiction, business in a paperback edition that was published by Hartley & Marks on January 1, 1991 and has 191 pages.Explore it on Goodreads or Amazon Non-fictional collection of essays that discuss typography and book layout. My Take Oh my god, what a pretentious twit! Albeit one with a lovely gift for words, so flowery in his discourse on the beauty of book layouts. I couldn’t decide if I was reading a critique on book construction or wine. Harmony is determined by relationships or proportions. Proportions are hidden everywhere: in the capaciousness of the margins, in the reciprocal relationships to each other of all four margins on the page of a book, in the relationship between leading of the type area and dimensions of the margins, the placement of the page number relative to the…and on and on. Tschichold’s use of the word “morality” as part of the title […]
Book Review: James Scott Bell’s Plot & Structure: Techniques and Exercises for Crafting a Plot That Grips Readers from Start to Finish
How does plot influence story structure? What’s the difference between plotting for commercial and literary fiction? How do you revise a plot or structure that’s gone off course?
Book Review: Jon Rognerud’s Ultimate Guide to Search Engine Optimization
Unlock the mystery of SEO and remove the fears of intimidating technology with this step-by-step guide to building a fully optimized web site and a successful, traffic-driving SEO campaign.