A Craft Review is an analysis of a novel with focus on how the writer wrote the book using writing craft tools.

You benefit as a writer because you see how writing craft is used successfully.

As a beginning or advanced writer you may still be caught psychologically, as I used to be, in the story itself.

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You are a writer with a manuscript.

⇒ It’s a good story but even you are a bit bored by it.
⇒ You’ve worked hard on a long manuscript and still something feels missing. Should you send it out to agents and publishers anyway?
⇒ You’ve had agents and editors look at your manuscript you labored so hard over but none of them have said they want to get it published.
⇒ You have had a book published. You gave it publicity. You have a writer’s book site to publicize it. Still, it doesn’t sell. You worry. You want to keep believing in your book as a good book that can still find an audience. Can it? What if it is a sick book? Should you forget it, write it over, hope that someday you produce a best seller, as Dan Brown did, and then all your published books will become best sellers?
⇒ Does a sick book make a sick writer?
⇒ Does a sick writer make a sick book?
⇒ Can a book or manuscript be rescued?
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Tags: story, writer, manuscript, sick book, sick writer, writing rescue, writer's examination