Tuesday, September 5, 2023

Review- Write Your Own Cake: A Worldbuilding Essay by Jennifer Estep

Title: Write Your Own Cake: A Worldbuilding Essay

Author: Jennifer Estep

Genre: Adult, nonfiction, writing

Publication date: February 2022

Published by: Jennifer Estep

Source: Purchased ebook

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Synopsis: When it comes to writing, worldbuilding is like making a cake. Why a cake? Because every author starts with the same general ingredients of characters, plot, and setting, but it’s how each author combines and adds to those ingredients that makes a book an author’s own unique creation.

This essay offers a few tips and poses some questions for figuring out the things you enjoy and do best as an author, so that you can write your own cake, whether it’s a big, bold epic fantasy adventure, a subtle, nuanced mystery, an emotion-packed romance, or something else.

Note: Write Your Own Cake is a 2,000-word essay about writing and worldbuilding. It first appeared as part of the Scribbler subscription box in November 2018.

My rating: ★★★★★

When I say I'll read anything and everything by Jennifer Estep, I literally mean everything...


Including this! This is an essay about writing and it uses food as a metaphor, which I love because Jennifer’s food descriptions in her books always make me drool.


This had a lot of good information on writing and finding your strengths. And she also uses Kill the Queen as an example, which I really appreciated. But yeah, I really enjoyed this! It was easy to read—the cake metaphors helped lol—and just very helpful if you’re looking for some writing advice. Because you know what?



Have you read this book? If so, what did you think about it? If not, what do you think? Does it sound like something you might want to read? Leave me a link to your review or comment below! 😊

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