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Title: A Manual of Writer's Tricks by David L. Carroll, Sheree Bykofsky ISBN: 1-56924-607-6 Publisher: Marlowe & Company Pub. Date: 29 September, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95

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Average Customer Rating: 5 (5 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: Page after page of practical, useful advice
Comment: Like the other reviewers of this book I was amazed by this collection of writing tips.

The book is loaded with two to four paragraph recommendations on topics including style, structure, colorful writing, revision, writing exercises, word choice.

Ample exercises are given where appropriate. This book is easy to read and you feel that the author is right there sitting next to you as you read the book. He's gently giving you tips on improving your writing, unlike the tough commands of Strunk and White.

I would like to list all of the items that I found interesting and useful, but there would be too many. So, here's one that I just turned to:

"Always include some type of conflict... It's a not-so-well-kept secret among writers that the principle of conflict and resolution, so dear to the novelist's heart, applies just as successfuly to exposition and non-ficton as it does to fiction, even the most theoretical and academic kinds." He then goes on to list eleven ways to include conflict in your non-fiction. He also describes some examples using conflict.

I highly recommend this book, it is one of my favorites on writing.

John Dunbar
Sugar Land, TX

Rating: 5
Summary: For what it is, extremely well done
Comment: This book is page after page of distilled advice on writing. No amusing anecdotes. No inspirational thoughts. These suggestions could be found in more verbose books, but as a quick reference this one is hard to beat.

Rating: 5
Summary: The Illuminated Simplicity of Useful Principle
Comment: I have just finished reading, for the first time, one of the best books on writing craft I have read to date: "A Manual of Writer's Tricks" by David L. Carroll. I was already recommending it to others when I had not read more than ten pages. This is the craft of writing reduced to the simplicity of useful principle. Those principles are accompanied by sufficient relevant analysis and precision example to illuminate those very same principles; and thus they are useful "tricks" indeed. The author has rendered a great service to the craft and writers. I highly recommend this book.

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