I have to admit that I don't devour writing craft books. But once in a while one comes a long that really hits home for me.My friend Stina tuned me into this one (click on the link for her review):
Rivet your Readers with Deep Point of View by Jill Elizabeth Nelson
There are four reasons why I like it.
1. It gets straight to the point.
2. It gives you great examples on how to develop a deeper POV.
3. It gives you worksheets at the end of each chapter.
4. It's short. So you learn a lot in a short period of time.
I highly recommend this book. I have it on kindle right now, but I'm thinking I might buy a paperback version, because I like flipping through.
Which begs the question.
For craft books do you like a digital copy or a paper copy?
And for another plug don't forget The Emotion Thesaurus by the Bookshelf Muse (Angela and Becca). Always have this one by my computer
15 comments:
I prefer hard copies of all books and definitely for reference books.
I'm not a huge consumer of writing craft books either, but it's good to have a few nearby I think. I definitely prefer paper copies of any book, ever. If not for the love of being able to hold a book and not worry about shattering a screen, then for the sake of my eyes, which hate me a little more every time I spend too long looking at a screen.
Yay for the Emotion Thesaurus! :)
I prefer the dead trees version for most books. I'm not proud of this, but it's true.
Paul
How did I miss Stina's review of this one? I love short and to the point, too, so maybe I'll have to try this out. :)
I do like paper for craft book. I think if I had a large ebook reader that might change.
I noticed your link is to amazon.ca and I thought I might mention there are tons of more reviews for that book on .com --for anyone interested.
oh and also a look inside...
I'm not great at devouring(good word choice for here)them either. But this sounds good! Thanks for the tip!
Looks like a great read. Thanks for the rec!
Ooh! Another book to add to my list. I generally buy hard copies of writing books so I can highlight important passages.
Nutschell
www.thewritingnut.com
Thanks for the heads up Southpaw, I changed the link to Amazon.com so people can read more reviews, if they so choose.
I may have to check this one out. Sounds like a great book to help with the craft.
There's a paper copy version?????? I've had to buy a few craft books in paperback after I read the ebook version and realized I NEEDED it in paperback. Now I just pay the paperback version if it's available. Lesson learned!
I really have to read more (or any) writing craft books. The last one I read was about 11 years ago. ;) And I think it was the only one!
as bad as this sounds...id rather paper most things. oh the trees are crying and booing me. :D
As a general rule, any non-fiction book MUST be the paper version. It gets tedious really fast to flip through a digital version when I'm researching. And as I have no Kindle or any other e-reader, I still prefer paper over anything else, although I admit to loving it when I find an out of print book now online as an e-book for my research purposes.
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