Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Neither interesting nor helpful

A decidedly uninteresting collection of essays. The essays are written in a sort of univerally vanilla style, which is maybe indicitive of how writing classes are taught, but which hardly gets the reader exciting about the writing process. The exercises are hokey, and may be of interest to people just getting started on the work of writing, but will most likely be useless to anyone who has completed a few stories. "The Eleventh Draft" and "Why I Write" are much more interesting, inciteful, and inspiring books about creating fiction.