From Where You Dream (Robert Olen Butler)

I really didn't like From Where You Dream . This book on writing seems to be taken verbatim from lectures given by the author (which makes the style a little irritating to read), and the methods it mandates, such as writing in a trance-like state, didn't grab me at all. He doesn't touch on speculative fiction as a genre, which annoys me, and he doesn't seem to require writers to research either. It's all this dreamlike subconscious thing. Bleh.