Title: The Art & Craft of Writing Christian Fiction
Author: Jeff Gerke
ISBN: 978-0-9821049-6-5
I'm going to break away from my normal routine of telling what is on the back cover because this isn't fiction. Perhaps I should still share it, but I'm making an executive decision here. {wink}
I don't know if Jeff's book was the most helpful book I've ever read on writing. I do know it was the most fun. It was also the most well-organized. Each area is broken down into manageable chunks that make it easy to go back to a section you want to look up later. I will remember sections and look them up again too—if just for the fun of it. I loved the way he explained things with creative language, references to popular movies and excerpts from his own writing… I felt as if I were talking to someone who was coaching me through the process in a fun, approachable way.
Make no mistake, there is plenty of good information wedged between those softcovers. Each time he added a mistake new writers make, or some horrible manuscript that had crossed his desk, I shuddered to think how he would respond to my manuscript.
Perhaps that and keeping his book placed prominently on my desk will be enough for me to avoid making some of those errors. Maybe I should read it again—just to make sure I've crafted my lightsaber properly.
He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began. ~ Leo Tolstoy
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Lee Smith
