Like Brenda Ueland's If You Want to Write, this is a life-changing sort of book, especially, I think, for the person Lerner calls "The Ambivalent Writer." The ambivalent writer, she says, is the one who changes forms and styles from day to day, a screenwriter today, a novelist the next, a web writer the third. The ambivalent writer is also the person who has all the neuroses associated with writing but little or none of the production. You know, she says, what you want to write-- you've gravitated toward one or more forms all your life. Write it.Lerner gives you permission to make art out whatever obsesses you. She shows why it is ridiculous to think you could rewrite Angela's Ashes or Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil and why your book will probably bomb if you do. Buy extra copies to give to relatives who tell you what to do to make your next novel a bestseller.