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Title: You're Not Fooling Anyone When You Take Your Laptop to a Coffee Shop: Scalzi on Writing
Author: John Scalzi
Genre: Essays on writing
Thingummies: 3
Synopsis: A collection of essays on writing from Scalzi's blog Whatever, through 2006.
Thoughts: I've been reading Whatever for the last two years or so, so I've read a lot of Scalzi without having read these particular essays. Honestly, if you've read much of the blog, you can probably skip this one. It's perfectly well done, but I feel like between other Scalzi essays and other essays on writing, I've read most of this material before. Also, at this point, there's a fair amount of advice that's dated. Changes in the publishing industry are rapidly rendering a lot of good advice somewhat moot.
It's funny, it's a good window into Scalzi's incredibly sensible and ruthlessly practical approach to writing (both as a craft and as a living). But it's either for the total Scalzi rookie or for the completionist.
Author: John Scalzi
Genre: Essays on writing
Thingummies: 3
Synopsis: A collection of essays on writing from Scalzi's blog Whatever, through 2006.
Thoughts: I've been reading Whatever for the last two years or so, so I've read a lot of Scalzi without having read these particular essays. Honestly, if you've read much of the blog, you can probably skip this one. It's perfectly well done, but I feel like between other Scalzi essays and other essays on writing, I've read most of this material before. Also, at this point, there's a fair amount of advice that's dated. Changes in the publishing industry are rapidly rendering a lot of good advice somewhat moot.
It's funny, it's a good window into Scalzi's incredibly sensible and ruthlessly practical approach to writing (both as a craft and as a living). But it's either for the total Scalzi rookie or for the completionist.
