That said, here's my park bench (right at the beginning of the book):
It's an almost Julia Cameron-make-believe fallen flat. It consists of things I fantasised about when I was a teenager (when I created a club, along with badges, secret signs, the lot) - that's all passé! Perhaps Smith thinks it's possible to recreate that kind of thing and I agree there was the occasional spark of delight in these pages, but not enough for me to follow through with it. Rather than encourage me to write, this book actually put me off. The problem with the book is that Smith draws you in and then drags out the "suspense" to the extent that you KNOW you're being conned into something! It's all well and good to try and copy a Narnia idea, with childhood fantasies and the like, but as an adult, there are certain limits to what you can do.
When I first laid my hands on this book I was extremely excited about it: another book to keep me occupied/give ideas! Another that I don't necessarily have to read from cover to cover, but can scribble in too (I happen to enjoy that kind of thing).
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