Live Writing: Breathing Life into Your Words
by Ralph Fletcher
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Author: Ralph FletcherEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1999-03-09
ISBN: 0380797011
Number of pages: 144
Publisher: HarperCollins
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- ISBN13: 9780380797011
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Book Review: Live Writing
Summary: 1 Stars
Have you ever read a book that you hated so much that you never wanted to set eyes on it again? Well I have and I want to tell you a little about it so that you don't have to go through the misery of reading it, like what I had to go through. The book I am talking about is called Live Writing, the book was written by a man named Ralph Fletcher. It is about how to write inspiringly. The author uses something called a "tool box" to explain how to create great writing. The whole book is filled with tips and short stories that a writer should add into their "tool box". Though Ralph Fletcher did have a purpose in writing this book (to help children write well), he didn't make his point well, while writing the book. This book had no point at all in it, and is a big waste of time to read.
Live Writing doesn't exactly have characters in it except in the short story in the end, or you could include the quotes in and it that appear throughout the endless pages of waste. The author himself is the narrator of the whole book, so he is a character in himself. Throughout the book Fletcher mentions characters in his poems and people who had given him his inspiration for example Carolyn Coman he talks about her and her books and how she is one of his favorite writers, but otherwise there weren't many characters. The fact of there not being many characters, makes the book worse already.
While I was reading the book Live Writing I couldn't concentrate one bit on what I was reading, because of all the dullness that the book was filled with. Also while reading the book, I came to realize something else I didn't like about the book and that was the style in which it was written in. There was no variety in the writing and there was absolutely no suspense of a sort. In the book Ralph Fletcher try's to make writing fun but he doesn't succeed in doing that. If he made his book more fun and adventures then it would be an al together better book. Live Writing was and is the worst book I have ever read and this is why I would recommend it to no one in the world. This is also why you should never waste your time like I did just to read this terrible book.
Summary of Live Writing: Breathing Life into Your Words
This book is based on the simple idea that every writer has a "tool box." Instead of awls and hammers, a writer's toolbox contains words, imagination, a love of books, a sense of story, and ideas for how to make the writing live and breathe. I wrote this book to give you some practical strategies to throw into your toolbox. I hope you'll try them, because these are ideas that can make you a better writer.This book is titled Live Writing, and you may be wondering what I mean by that. Most of us have read (and written!) the opposite kind of writing-dull, drab language that sounds about as interesting as a city phone book. By "live writing" I mean the kind of writing that has a current running through it-energy, electricity, juice. When we read "live writing", the words seem to lift off the page and burrow deep inside us.
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