Dianne DoubtfireBesprekingen

The Magic of Stamps
What to Do First
Sorting out a Mixed Packet
Stamp Stories from the British Commonwealth
All Shapes and Sizes
New Ways of Collecting Stamp
Stories from Europe
Some Questions Answered
Making a Zoo
Stamp Stories from Africa
Sports and Games Stamp
Stories from Asia
Getting Together
Stamp Stories from North America
Things that Live in the Sea
Stamp Stories from South America
Boats and Ships
Trains
Aeroplanes
The Very First Stamp
Stamp Index

A short but clearly written volume giving some essential suggestions and guidelines for writers who want to embark on a novel. Nothing stood out as new to me, but there were plenty of useful reminders. The whole is written in a friendly tone, and while the advice about typewriters is obviously out-of-date in the 21st century, the majority of the advice still holds, thirty-five years after publication.

Recommended to anyone considering novel-writing, as a great introduction that covers just about everything necessary to know.

I used this as the 'set text' in the writing group a couple of colleagues and I briefly ran. We worked through the exercises and were not allowed to skip the ones we didn't like the look of, which pushed us all out of our various comfort zones to useful effect.