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Title: THE WRITER'S BLOCK 786 Ideas to Jump-Start Your Imagination by Jason Rekulak ISBN: 0-7624-0948-7 Publisher: Running Press Book Publishers Pub. Date: 01 March, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.79 (14 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: How to tackle that writer's block
Comment: Oh, I love, love, love this little "Writer's Block" book. Yes, it is gimmicky: it is a 3"x3x4" BLOCK (get it?) of 672 thick pages. They aren't numbered and there is no table of contents. That's by design. The author, Jason Rekulak intends for you to use these little exercises almost at random. I found I was very stimulated by flipping through the pages-- I started writing the exercise in my head almost as soon as I had read it. The assignments make you focus your mind with great clarity on a single point.
Here's an example of one of the exercises: "There are 30,000 Americans who drink more than 10 cups of coffee per day. Write a story about one of them." I think the author's name makes a 673rd bonus exercise that I am adding here: "Write a science fiction story with an alien creature named Rekulak." (Sorry, Jason, but you got my imagination going!)
Some of the assignments are geared to creative or fictional writing and others towards reportage or memoir. I love that--it's a bit like Forrest Gump's box of chocolates. Since the pages aren't numbered, and the thickness of the book makes it hard to spread open, I use Post-It(tm) flags to mark any I think I want to go back to. But it's probably better to use the book like that box of chocolates and just take the vanilla cream along with the toffee that sticks to your dental work. If you do one of these every day, in two years, who knows what you will be writing? I intend to find out.
Rating: 5
Summary: Small-Form Book Packs a Tremendous Creative Punch
Comment: This is literally a "block" of a book. It's the kind of book you would find next to the register at a bookstore as an impulse buy. However, the small size masks a very effective tool for kickstarting your writing. There are exercises, words to spark your imagination, and photos that will help trigger other parts of your creative psyche.
Of all the books dedicated toward jump-starting a stalled mind, this is definitely the smallest, and possibly the most inexpensive, but in terms of value per page, no other "idea" book can match this one.
As previous reviewers have said, after a few times through the book, the spine makes it look like a kind of floppy Rolodex, but it is a great way to give yourself that extra edge when there's nothing else around to fire your imagination.
Rating: 5
Summary: Great Bok For Writer's Block
Comment: I love this book. It really answers all of your questions for writer's block. It's easy to use and you can just flip through it when you I want to write.
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Title: Pocket Muse: Ideas and Inspirations for Writing by Monica Wood ISBN: 1582971420 Publisher: Writer's Digest Books Pub. Date: 01 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.99 |
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Title: The Observation Deck: A Tool Kit for Writers (Past & Present) by Naomi Epel ISBN: 0811814815 Publisher: Chronicle Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 1998 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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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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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: 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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