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Originally Posted by Dr. Drib
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Please let us know if she's written anything with new ideas, or if it's just a tired rehash.
Don
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Don, I took a quick breeze through this. It appears to mostly a collection of blog/website posts from her website reworked, added to, etc. to form this book.
I'd say it's got a lot of good information and advice - particularly for newish writers - but is as you suspect mostly things that have been said elsewhere and everywhere.
The thing that is unique is that it is focused on Nanowrimo and has some good pointers about getting ready, and getting through it to complete the goal.
One point I took note of was when in the discussion of outlines, preparation etc. she says that if you have 30 'talking points' ... 30 scenes etc. that you can write 2000 words about each then your all but done.
Do one each day and you'd have 60K words at the end of November.
She did spend one chapter whining about those who 'attack' her for writing so much, so fast. Apparently she actually 'doubles up' on Nano and does two novels in the 30 days.
My take-away is that if you have been doing writing for a while then there's probably not a lot here to help you, but if you are relative new to writing or to Nanowrimo then there may be some good tips and info. And it is free....bonus!