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Gardner has been there and he is candid about the process and digs quite deep into aspects of writing that would seem to defy definition

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As stephen king does gardner cautions against liberal use of adverbs

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Unlike king unlike any novelist gardner says adverbs can be either your best friend or your worst nightmare

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The reader is regularly presented with proofs—in the form of closely observed details—that what is said to be happening is really happening

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It is in fact not just a guide for a young novice trying to be a novelist but a critical advice for even the professional or the elitist who may easily forget about the magic of writing or as gardner puts it neglect the magical job of creating an incessant vivid dream in the minds of the readersnot interrupted by anything

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This is the writing book you have to read right before stephen kings on writing

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It is written by a creative writing professor and a writer who deeply cared for the words he put on paper no screens yet back then

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In fact one of themes that goes through the book as a red thread is work on your novel until you are sure that youve exhausted your abilities as a writer and cannot write better