Awaken the Writer Within - Softcover

Cathy-birch

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1845280776 ISBN 13: 9781845280772

Publisher: How To Books Ltd, 2005

Synopsis

If writing is one of your favourite things, but you feel that you need some help releasing the creativity that drives it, then this book is for you. It aims to get you writing, keep you writing, and enable you to enjoy it to the full. It will show you how to free your own unique voice and create original and individual work. Packed with exercises, the book includes: visualisation techniques, flow charts, dream-work, and word webs. Each of these is designed to help you to explore both your conscious and your subconscious mind and to harness your creativity with a view to developing your characters, settings, plot and dialogue. Additional exercises focus on sustaining your physical well-being, providing the perfect setting in which to develop your writing. Case studies charting the experiences of creative writing students show how these exercises can actually work to help find a way of writing that suits you. Best of all, this inspiring book fills you with the desire to write and reveals how best to fulfil this desire.Contents: 1. Writing as a way of life 2. Tuning in 3. Discovering the plot 4. Developing atmosphere, pace, mood 5. Working with beginnings and endings 6. Surprising yourself 7. Working with your dreams 8. Recycling 9. Crafting 10. Editing.

About this title

About the Author

Cathy Birch is a writer, lecturer, and Jungian psychotherapist. Her impressive writing credits range from comedy material for Bob Hope, Dave Allen and The Two Ronnies to language skills textbooks, poetry, articles and short stories. She is based in Okehampton, Devon, UK.

Review

"'There is a solid practical base to this book... give Cathy's methods a try - you might surprise yourself.' Writer's Bulletin 'Your true writer's voice is unlikely to inhabit the realms of logic...this book takes you on a journey into the subconscious to help you find that voice and use it. The results can be both amazing and satisfying.' Writers' Own"

About this edition

• Publisher: How To Books Ltd
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1845280776
• ISBN 13: 9781845280772
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 144