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The Secret Miracle: The Novelist's Handbook (2010)

by Daniel Alarcón(Favorite Author)

3.41 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0805087141 (ISBN13: 9780805087147)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

St. Martin's Griffin

review 1: Only partially in love with this compilation of responses by writers to a series of questions such as, "Is there a particular way you approach noveliziing real events? How?". Interesting to compare the responses of Stephen King and Nell Freudenberger, for example, but something about the entire work feels a little thin. Maybe too facile...Just the responses and no commentary. But I'm still enjoying going in and out and nibbling.
review 2: After nearly 2 years, I finally got through this whole thing. (!!!) The opening is fairly dull, IMO, but the concept (once you know it) is quite cool: Ask 50-60 authors a series of questions about their reading and writing. It's not, in fact, a handbook at all, nor a secret miracle. But it's interesting, and at times inspir... moreing, at least for aspiring writers. My copy is positively riddled with post-it notes and underlined passages, and I plan to share many of my favorite quotes with friends and fellow writers. less

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