The Forest for the Trees
by Betsy Lerner
It is very entertaining and informative and also hugely affirming. You often worry that you are only pretending to be a writer and that real writers are a different breed, but this book shows they can be just like you.
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“the reason I like this book is for the first half of it, which is very different. Here she offers six chapters, each of which is a character sketch of a different type of author. She has met each of them and so although she doesn’t mention names you feel she is revealing something to you about authors whose books you may have read. She describes six classic personality types. She has the ambivalent writer, the natural, the wicked child, the self-promoter, the neurotic and a chapter called ‘Touching Fire’, which is about the addictive and the mentally unstable.” Read more...
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