DeMisty Bellinger's review of On Teaching and Writing Fiction (original) (raw)
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DeMisty Bellinger's Reviews > On Teaching and Writing Fiction
On Teaching and Writing Fiction
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Even though Stegner sometimes comes off as pompous, this is a helpful book in some aspects. The best and most helpful part of the book is from an interview that Dartmouth College did with Stegner. In it, he explores if one can teach creative writing and how does one go about doing so, bravely saying (or not so bravely—he is retired here) that not everyone is capable of learning how to write.
The other interesting chapter was, “To a Young Writer,” an intimate and honest response to an inquiring writer, asking all the questions many beginning writer asks (about agents, on what to publish, etc.). Stegner gives his inquirer more; I can see assigning this brief chapter to a beginning fiction writing class to address assumptions and questions many students have at that level.
My rating is low because a lot of the book is either common sense or for the very beginning writer. So for me, the rating is lower than usual, but the book is not necessarily bad, if that makes sense.
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April 15, 2012 – Shelved as:writing
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