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jessicasteiner) wrote2013-03-04 06:29 pm
jessicasteiner) wrote2013-03-04 06:29 pm
Review: How To Be a Whiny Beeyotch, by @write_hook Scott Morgan
I have some other reviews lined up, but this book suddenly came across my computer screen and then hit me hard enough I want to go out and get everyone to read it before my passion for it starts to dwindle.
How To Be a Whiny Beeyotch: 71 Writing Excuses Meet the Back of My Hand is a quick read (only 161 pages on Kindle) and every page is gold. At least, if you're a person who wants to write, or believes you want to write, which are not always the same thing.
The book is basically a list of 71 real excuses given to Mr. Morgan for why a person who wants to become an author, can't do it. And then why those excuses are bullshit.
While many of the excuses made me laugh at how silly the people making them are, #4, #5 and #6 were the ones that really got my goat. As I was reading those it was a lot of 'Oh...yeah. You're right' and realizing that I needed to stop kidding myself. I may literally print them out and wallpaper my office with them. I think anyone who wants to be a writer will find their excuses in this book, and will see that those excuses are simply nothing that should be stopping them.
I have two complaints about this book:
1. It's not long enough. There's about 2 pages of witty, pithy, sarcastic anti-bullshit motivational stuff for each of the excuses, and it was over far too quickly! I would have loved to read Mr. Morgan's humour for far more than a single evening. (Though I think I'm going to run out and get some of his other books, so there's that)
2. It's only available in paperback, or on Kindle, apparently. Mr. Morgan, if you see this, some of us have Kobos. I paid for it anyway, hoping that I'd be able to convert it to epub and read it on my chosen device, but it has DRM. Instead, I had to read it on my laptop, which sort of sucked. This, unlike #1, is a real complaint. But it's no reflection on the quality of the book itself.
So yes, go get it. It's only $3.50 or something on Kindle. It made me laugh out loud at many parts, and really got me feeling good about writing as well. I heartily recommend it.
How To Be a Whiny Beeyotch: 71 Writing Excuses Meet the Back of My Hand is a quick read (only 161 pages on Kindle) and every page is gold. At least, if you're a person who wants to write, or believes you want to write, which are not always the same thing.
The book is basically a list of 71 real excuses given to Mr. Morgan for why a person who wants to become an author, can't do it. And then why those excuses are bullshit.
While many of the excuses made me laugh at how silly the people making them are, #4, #5 and #6 were the ones that really got my goat. As I was reading those it was a lot of 'Oh...yeah. You're right' and realizing that I needed to stop kidding myself. I may literally print them out and wallpaper my office with them. I think anyone who wants to be a writer will find their excuses in this book, and will see that those excuses are simply nothing that should be stopping them.
I have two complaints about this book:
1. It's not long enough. There's about 2 pages of witty, pithy, sarcastic anti-bullshit motivational stuff for each of the excuses, and it was over far too quickly! I would have loved to read Mr. Morgan's humour for far more than a single evening. (Though I think I'm going to run out and get some of his other books, so there's that)
2. It's only available in paperback, or on Kindle, apparently. Mr. Morgan, if you see this, some of us have Kobos. I paid for it anyway, hoping that I'd be able to convert it to epub and read it on my chosen device, but it has DRM. Instead, I had to read it on my laptop, which sort of sucked. This, unlike #1, is a real complaint. But it's no reflection on the quality of the book itself.
So yes, go get it. It's only $3.50 or something on Kindle. It made me laugh out loud at many parts, and really got me feeling good about writing as well. I heartily recommend it.