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Review - Put The Cat in the Oven Before You Describe the Kitchen


This book gets straight to the point about writing technique, is short (took me about an hour to read), simple and easy to understand with plenty of examples. This book is targeted at beginner writers but it is a helpful reminder for those writers who are more experienced also. 

I have to say with this book the most important piece of advice is in the title - don't bore readers by starting with description weave it into the story - something needs to happen first. This may seem obvious as a writer but it is a helpful reminder. This is by no means the only helpful piece of information in the book, however it is crammed with tips, advice and how tos. It is also written in such as a way that the advice is easy to remember afterwards (although there is a lot and I will be dipping in and out of it for months to come). 

There are however some typos and mistakes in the book mostly between pages 48 and 51 but overall the book is very helpful and well written. 

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