- Paperback: 169 pages
- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd; illustrated edition edition (5 May 2006)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0143019791
- ISBN-13: 978-0143019794
- Product Dimensions: 19.7 x 13.5 x 1.3 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,158,845 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Many people want to write but don't know where to start. "WRITE: A 30-day Guide to Creative Writing" is designed for the aspiring fiction writer who wants to kick-start their imagination. Packed with activities, daily tasks, exercises, and advice, it offers guidance through the basic stages of writing creatively: formulating ideas, crafting characters, inventing plot and dialogue, dealing with setting, pace and structure, and even overcoming writer's block. Original, stimulating, and often funny, this is the ideal guide both for the independent writer, and for tutors and workshop leaders.
About the Author
Sarah Quigley is an experienced novelist, poet, columnist, and short story writer. With this book she shares some of the 'tricks of the trade', demystifying the art of writing and offering insights into the creative process.
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
If she could do it so could I
3 May 2007
Format:Paperback
I like books about writing, I like to feel the engine in my head start whenever I am challenged by a good writing prompt/idea / suggestion and clearly a good one will take you somewhere.
In this case, this book is so unoriginal, and the writing ideas in it are so silly that I am actually angry I payed for it. I don't need someone to tell me "Open today's newspaper and write about someone who's in the headlines" or "write a story based around a photograph", "Go to a gallery and pick a painting and write a story based around it" or "write about 5 thins that make you happy" arrrgh! it makes me mad!
Seriously, I could suggest a few: "look up at a cloud and write a poem" or "write about a lost puppy". In short, this book just glorifies her own approach and does not challenge your imagination at all.
I suggest this other book The 3 A.M. Epiphany: Uncommon Writing Exercises That Transform Your Fictionfor once, this is a book that challenges and exhausts you.
With Ms. Quigleys book I've fallen into the trap of the backcover
"...offering insights into the creative process".
Avoid this one.
In this case, this book is so unoriginal, and the writing ideas in it are so silly that I am actually angry I payed for it. I don't need someone to tell me "Open today's newspaper and write about someone who's in the headlines" or "write a story based around a photograph", "Go to a gallery and pick a painting and write a story based around it" or "write about 5 thins that make you happy" arrrgh! it makes me mad!
Seriously, I could suggest a few: "look up at a cloud and write a poem" or "write about a lost puppy". In short, this book just glorifies her own approach and does not challenge your imagination at all.
I suggest this other book The 3 A.M. Epiphany: Uncommon Writing Exercises That Transform Your Fictionfor once, this is a book that challenges and exhausts you.
With Ms. Quigleys book I've fallen into the trap of the backcover
"...offering insights into the creative process".
Avoid this one.
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