#dianne doubtfire

[isaacwritesfantasynovels]

“The strongest themes are ageless, classless, universal.”

— Dianne Doubtfire, The Craft of Novel Writing

[rozmorris]

The first book on writing I ever read - what was yours?

The first book on writing I ever read – what was yours?

Most of us here probably have a shoal of books about writing craft. Here’s just one of my shelves. But which was the first one you ever read? For me, that book was The Craft of Novel-Writing by Dianne Doubtfire. It was a gift from Husband Dave when we first met in 1992. It’s a tiny volume; just 87 pages including the index at the end and throat-clearing at the start. But it has everything you…

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[vintage-teen-books]

A Girl Called Rosemary by Dianne Doubtfire

15-year old Rosemary Carter's parents were recently killed in a plane crash. Now she and her younger brother, 11-year old Leo, are living with their aunt and uncle, who have no children and seem a bit ill-equipped to care for any. Leo falls in with a gang led by Derek "Hal" Halsey while Rosemary falls for 18-year old Scott Fleming. Nothing is made of the fact that Rosemary is only fifteen; this is a British novel so maybe things were way different there in the seventies, I don't know.

But somehow this is a book that's stayed with me through the years. At the end, Leo has begun to walk the straight and narrow and admires Scott tremendously, while Hal fades into the woodwork. 

I actually reread this book for posting here and found that I liked it just as much. And as such things happen, I can't say exactly why.