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Title: Story Starters: How to Jump-Start Your Imagination, Get Your Creative Juices Flowing, and Start Writing Your Story or Novel by Lou Willett Stanek ISBN: 0-380-79552-3 Publisher: Quill Pub. Date: 01 April, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.8 (5 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: This Is Only Ok
Comment: I was really hoping that I would learn something new from this book. It's good for story starters like the title says. However, in a weird way the author talks to you like you were a six year old.
If the writer had taken the time to work on his 'ideas' and writing for the book it would have been better.
However, it is a good book for some one who is starting.
Rating: 1
Summary: Don't buy this.
Comment: This book is *awful.* It's full of unconnected dribble.
Can the author carry a thought through? What is she
doing writing at all, let alone writing about writing?
She has a PH.d. in what?? Better to do some searching
in the deja archives about getting ideas for writing.
The author seems to float in and out of dreamland. That
might be ok for the process of thinking up fiction, but
not for writing about writing. Now if she was going to
show me how to float in and out of dreamland, and how to
make that dreamland actually interesting, that would be
another thing. Her dreamland was boring.
Rating: 5
Summary: Shows you how to find amazing stories in the simplest places
Comment: I have read several of this "creative writing books", and believe me, a lot of them are not worth the plastic they come wrapped in. This is definitely NOT the case.
The author instructs you in simple yet effective techniques to set your creative genius on the loose. After you read the book and apply some of the ideas in it you will start to see that there is a potential story in almost every event, object or person that you encounter, just need to add a little imagination and you have your story.
The best part is that the author has quite some experience on teaching and educating aspiring writers, so the book is structured in a very didactic, simple and solid way. You can even read it orderly or just concentrating on the parts that you're interested, and still get the whole idea of each chapter.
Among other things she shows you how to get a story from everyday objects, how to get a story from events, how to help shape your character through action rather than pure description, etc.
As I told you before, I have lost quite a load of money on useless creative writing books, and I can tell you: THIS IS A MUST HAVE, perfect for us writing newbies that keep looking around for the perfect story to tell.
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Title: What If? Writing Exercises for Fiction Writers by Anne Bernays, Pamela Painter ISBN: 0062720066 Publisher: HarperResource Pub. Date: 04 December, 1991 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: THE WRITER'S BLOCK 786 Ideas to Jump-Start Your Imagination by Jason Rekulak ISBN: 0762409487 Publisher: Running Press Book Publishers Pub. Date: 01 March, 2001 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: A Writer's Workbook: Daily Exercises for the Writing Life by Caroline Sharp ISBN: 0312242727 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 2000 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: Beginnings, Middles & Ends (Elements of Fiction Writing) by Nancy Kress ISBN: 0898799058 Publisher: Writer's Digest Books Pub. Date: 01 May, 1999 List Price(USD): $12.99 |
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Title: The Writer's Idea Book by Jack Heffron ISBN: 158297179X Publisher: Writer's Digest Books Pub. Date: 01 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.99 |
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