Customer Reviews
Excellent, intelligent guide - By: , 05 Jun 2001 
I've read a fair few books on writing fiction, but this one is probably the best. Dorothea Brande's "Becoming A Writer" tells you how to think like a writer; this book explains how to write like a writer.
I thought I knew the bones of writing technique already, but this book contains so many insights that I often felt it necessary to break off readingin order to consider fully what I'd just read - not because the writing is not clear & easy to read, but because the points the author makes are so momentous.
Many writing guides talkin generalities or talk down to the reader, but this one isn't like that. Just one word of warning - I think the best of the book isin the middle & end, so don't be too impatient when reading the introductory chapters.
Simply the best of its class. - By: , 19 Jun 1997 As an MFA student I've been looking at a lot of books about how to write fiction, & very few of them do anything other than encourage you to keep writing. This book teaches you how to write a short story, & encourages you to write a =better= short story (without imposing its own definition of "better"). It is the only "how-to" bookin fiction that I have found that I can recommend, & I use itin my own teaching.
