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How To Be A Writer: Secrets From The Inside
Tue Jan 26 09:34:12 GMT 2010
How To Be A Writer was a gift to me from my wife: whilst I had enjoyed leafing through the book in the shop it seemed rather too slim a volume to merit the list price. I was perhaps wrong to take this view: wisdom isn't measured word for word, after all, and on balance How To Be A Writer is a guide and inspiration for the budding author.
The focus of Ferris' text is the value of revision: he states that this is the sole differentiator between the unpublished and the bestseller, and whilst this is perhaps somewhat oversold it is an interesting insight into the world of commercial writing from someone who not only runs a publishing house but is also a published author in his own right.