I'm doing these editor books as entertainment now, even if my training ain't going to be registered.
"World W**** three, Batman P***, Sign my D***"
"Writing has to be one of the loneliest professions in the world" Really chuck?
"You don't write to make friends" - Joy Williams (Within the weird plot/dialogue chapter I did not make sense off) Robert Mckee had a better book on dialogue.
He shares random, separate quotes, his bios with working with advertisers and writing is the most interesting.
Despite making edgy jokes and autism it feels mis aimed, it does not really feel that reactionary. It's selective with our ideas, as I did feel like what he's trying to come at from his perspective of behind an art's degree.
Maybe I'm jaded, though.
All ideas and public resonance with advertising being a crap shot, many does not know that Chuck was trying to compartmentalise reading David Foster Wallace along with other books and trying to process those feelings into a book of advice and going. "If you were my student"
He tends to go Respectability>Likeability within a character, that's where the character traits align of the patterns of the mode of a sympathetic Protagonist.
"Don't do dreams in developing tension" Well, David Lynch may have a disagreement with that. "It's my instructions I was taught" Okay Chuck.
3/5 first chapters
Next is the process. Ideation. Talks of piracy, talks of superheros doing inexplicably things with the comic writers, he's an unfriendly sort, yet you expect his ideation to travel and flow through.
Then at the times when it comes to the idea where he takes you, it's the most outlandish, off-the-wall ideas with his Hollywood formula which I'm most likely never going to follow, or maybe I do, if you've got your pattern-seeking eyeballs up.
Dirty entertainment book, maybe it will be used as reference, I'd prefer the Story Grid or Robert McGee.
What a dirty, dirty boook. DIRTY! Slap it with a rolled newspaper dirty!
3/5 still, pick'n choose.
(Oh, the best part was him dealing with hungry advertisers about not delivering enough eyeballs to the Superbowl, shows how advertisers of short-term and self-absorbed as they could not handle his character. )