Having already written my first novel, I read this book as motivation to revise and edit it, and hoped that I would find new information included here. I did. Granted, it is not a week by week guide to outlining,research, fleshing out characters, staying motivated etc. It basically assumes that the writer has skill, motivation and dedication. The things that I got out of this book was encouragement to write every day, and the nitty gritty elegance of the re-writing process.Never had I heard the emphasis to edit,revise,line by line, sentence by sentence, word by word like a poet who is trying to capture the essence of a situation.Never had I been told to make dialogue do double and triple duty- reveal character,advance plot, add to the music or the mood of the scene etc. Many other books seem to try to boil writing down to a recipe,step one, step two,step three.This book truly deals with writing as a craft and an artform.