The Story Cure

I am (in theory) the perfect person to read this book. I have been working on a memoir/novel for...wait for it...forty years. Yup. And I haven't finished.

Oh how I want a story cure.

I'm still waiting.

I love Dinty W. Moore. He's a marvelous writer and (I bet) he's a marvelous teacher. But this book didn't do it for me. For whatever reason. It's filled with oodles and oodles of diagnoses (“You just can't find the opening sentence,” for example) and cures, but I couldn't use the cure because I couldn't figure out what diagnosis applies to my book, and that's a deal breaker here.