Librarian Ep.1

As someone who reads and writes I am always looking for advice and insight from my favorite authors. So when one of them writes a book on the craft, picking it up for a read is a no brainer.

Terry Brooks is the phenomenal author of such series as Shannara, The Magic Kingdom of Land Over and The Phantom Menace. In his book Sometimes the Magic Works Lessons from a Writing Life, Terry Brooks takes a different approach about explaining writing and publishing fantasy fiction by making it personal. From chapter one Brooks takes you through the journey of his life from growing up as a imaginative dreamer to being published and through many experience with many of his trademark books while ending with the lessons he learned from his grandson. Filled with thirty years of insight, great advice, tips, examples and concepts of putting a strong story together this book is like a mentor passing on his trademark secrets to his apprentice. This book like his fiction is well crafted and by far one of my new favorites on the subject of writing.

I will end with this some people write, others read, and few play the music of both. Terry Brooks is one of the few authors who not only plays the music but also teaches it as a warm kind teacher.