With the world flipped upside down lately, I totally forgot to post my read books for March at the turn of the calendar page, so here’s the list:
The Lisa Cron book comes very highly recommended, and I stuck with it until about half-way through, where its approach to creating stories that have organic, dramatic conflicts baked into them somehow wasn’t working for me. Either the story–well… the protagonist, as that’s what any good story inherently comes from–I was applying Cron’s process to wasn’t yet well realized enough, or maybe her approach just doesn’t click with me, because of course an approach one writer swears by may not work at all for anyone else.
Whatever the case, I’ll try it again with another story concept, but since it wasn’t doing me much good here and now (and as always, other books on my to-be-read list are beckoning), I’ve put it aside for the time being.
And meanwhile, I’m really enjoying Doppler. I picked it up on spec from House of Anansi Press as part of their two-for-one ebook sale and was pleasantly surprised. I’ll have to see if the author has anything else out for me to dive into.