there isn't any odor to the book, actually.

the first third of the book is all about how to get started writing, with the focus being more on Writing Reports for Work rather than fiction. there are some parallels, naturally, but i found a lot of the frantic writing/editing/feedback/final product due by X date to be fairly distracting.

i'm hoping the section on editing is better -- especially since i have started that part of the process with my stories.

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