![]() ![]() The book is a mess of analogies and bragging. I've rated this one lower than the other two because in this one, the ego is much more out of control, and the actual benefit of the book is buried far more. ![]() Like the other two (Heinleins Rules and Writing a Novel in 7 Days), this book has *tons* of fantastic advice in it, and like the other two, it's massively plagued by Smiths insanely out of control ego. This is the last of Smith's books on writing I intend to read. However, my role model books probably won't even overlap DWS's recommended reading list. Also, although I think that writers generally improve as they go along, there are a lot of great novels written early authors' careers, and this summary makes no allowance for that.įinally, this series convinced me (again) that it's time to do more serious reading and analysis of great books, so in that was valuable to me. If you're trying to write pulp romance or action adventure stories, that may be fine advice, but for me, it doesn't work. While I agree with a lot of what he's written, I am not at all sold on the idea that the further a writer progresses, the fewer revisions they do, and revision will only steal your unique voice and stymie your progression as a writer. I enjoyed reading it, if only to argue half of the points he was trying to make.Ī summary, from the final post in the series: Perhaps some greatness crept in between the blog posts and the final version, but given that DWS is a great proponent of Heinlein's Rules, I doubt there was much difference. I picked up the sample for this book and balked at paying the $6 for the ebook, so I read the blog post version instead. Over his career he has also been an editor and publisher, first at Pulphouse Publishing, then for VB Tech Journal, then for Pocket Books.Ĭurrently, he is writing thrillers and mystery novels under another name. Many of Dean’s original novels are also under hidden pen names for marketing reasons.ĭean has also written books and comics for all three major comic book companies, Marvel, DC, and Dark Horse, and has done scripts for Hollywood. Many ghost and pen name books are not on this list because he is under contractual obligations not to disclose that he wrote them. ![]() The following is a list of novels under the Dean Wesley Smith name, plus a number of pen names that are open knowledge. With Kristine Kathryn Rusch, he is the coauthor of The Tenth Planet trilogy and The 10th Kingdom. He is also known for writing quality work very quickly and has written a large number of novels as a ghost writer or under house names. He has written many original novels in science fiction, fantasy, mystery, thriller, and romance as well as books for television, movies, games, and comics. He has over eight million copies of his books in print and has books published in nine different countries. Dean Wesley Smith is the bestselling author of over ninety novels under many names and well over 100 published short stories. ![]()
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