A review by natoriety
Telling Stories: The Craft of Narrative and the Writing Life by Lee Martin

informative reflective

2.25

The book was interesting in its discussion of creative non-fiction, but I have to say I was hoping it would be more on the academic side. The majority of the book consisted of the author talking about his family, conferences and personal experiences that oftentimes had nothing to do with writing. It might have been a good example for people who write non-fiction but to me, it felt like he was just filling pages without actual meaning a lot of the time. The structure of the book was also quite lanky and I was hoping for more details on the topics rather than just examples upon examples. Sometimes you have to get academic about it instead of analysing other people's work.