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Usually ships in 24 hours  (14 customer reviews)RRP: Buy New: $10.87 You Save: $5.12 (32%) Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours EDITORIAL REVIEWDISCOVER JUST HOW GOOD YOUR WRITING CAN BE If you write, you know what it's like. Insight and creativity - the desire to push the boundaries of your writing - strike when you least expect it. And you're often in no position to act: in the shower, driving the kids to school...in the middle of the night. The 3 A.M. Epiphany offers more than 200 intriguing writing exercises designed to help you think, write, and revise like never before, without having to wait for creative inspiration. Brian Kitely, noted author and director of the University of Denver's creative writing program, has crafted and refined these exercises through 15 years of teaching experience. You'll learn how to: * Transform staid and stale writing patterns into exciting experiments in fiction * Shed the anxieties that keep you from reaching your full potential as a writer * Craft unique ideas by combining personal experience with unrestricted imagination * Examine and overcome all of your fiction writing concerns, from getting started to writer's block Open the book, select an exercise, and give it a try. It's just what you need to craft refreshing new fiction, discover bold new insights, and explore what it means to be a writer. IT'S NEVER TOO EARLY TO START - NOT EVEN 3 A.M. PRODUCT DETAILSPublisher: Writers Digest BooksPub. Date: 5th August 2005 Catalog: Book Media: Paperback Number Of Pages: 272 Ean: 9781582973517 Isbn: 1582973512 ABOUT THIS BOOKUSER REVIEWS
Most writing prompts are good for a little diversion, but this book actually helps in the writing process. Flip through it at random to trigger some new ideas.
The prompts in this book are great for writers of all skill levels, making this book excellent for use in classes or writing groups, as well as for personal use. The prompts are great jumping-off points, whether you choose to follow them exactly or to just use them as inspiration. They're different from the run-of-the-mill prompts you can find in any so-so inspiration book, the type of prompts which may have made you hate writing when you were younger. These create specific, interesting situations which you can expand upon and make your own. All-in-all, this is an awesome book, and I look forward to getting ahold of the next book, which comes out in January.
After you've read five or six of these kinds of books, the exercises all seem the same. There are some good exercises in here, but nothing earth-shattering. A good reference book for teachers, but for the writer looking for something new to add to a collection of books of writing exercises, you might not be impressed.
I must say, when I ran across this book at work (I work for a book distributor), I realized that many of the exercises in here are ones the author used in a workshop I took at Naropa University 4 years ago...! I thought his fiction workshop was one of the best I've ever taken, as it sparked several story-lines, or ideas for sections of existing work, that I still have rolling today. I'm excited to see this book in print, and hope to read it more thoroughly in the near future, but upon a scan of several of the exercises, I can tell it's very engagingly written and unique in its approach. Kudos, Brian!
I've only worked through four of these exercises, but just those four have been inspiring. By forcing constraints in different areas (point of view is the first section) and adding creative twists to the writing goals-- and a word count limit, which I can always use!-- writing these pieces has been helpful in many ways as I work through the prep for the next novel. I'm really grateful for the thought that went into this book. Be warned-- the publisher apparently thought a nine point (or possibly smaller) typeface was a good idea. I disagree. But my eyes are still good, and Kitely has given me multiple things to think about and activities I would never try on my own. His introduction is also terrific. I'm definitely adding this to my shelf. SIMILAR ITEMS:
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