You're Not Fooling Anyone When You Take Your Laptop to a Coffee Shop: Scalzi on Writing
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781596060630 (1596060638)
Publish date: February 1st 2007
Publisher: Subterranean Press
Pages no: 319
Edition language: English
First, this is essentially a collection of blog posts. That's not necessarily bad, but in this case it results in a lot of redundancy, which is why the book feels like a collection of blog posts.Second, John Scalzi has a healthy ego. A very healthy ego. While he cops to it in the book, it doesn't st...
How you rate this book, I think, depends primarily on what you expected when you sat down to read it. Lets clear up all confusion by starting off with what it -isn't-.This book is not:- A how-to guide on the nuts and bolts of writing.- A how-to guide on getting published.- A how-to guide on growing ...