Double Your Creativity in 3 Hours: a guide and workbook for writers - Softcover

Dave Trottier

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1885655134 ISBN 13: 9781885655134

Publisher: Applewood Arts, 2014

Synopsis

Yearning to write with freedom and confidence? Frustrated by blocks and fears? This guidebook offers tips and techniques that will help you double your creativity in 3 hours. Let in-demand writing coach Dave Trottier help you make the act of creation both fun and productive.

Get your left and right brains to cooperate; break through writing obstacles with panache; summon your inner child for fun and profit. And find clear guidance and creative activities to mentor you on your writing quest.

The book consists of three sessions:

SESSION 1
Discover and liberate your creative self -- The nature of creativity; what is it specifically? -- The relationship between imagination and creativity -- Find your ideal creative state of mind -- Get the inner writer out and working for you.

SESSION 2
Tackle blocks and block fears -- Alchemy: turn blocks into stepping stones -- Break through fears -- What the Sistine Chapel and the movie Psycho have in common -- The Great Paradox of Creativity.

SESSION 3
Embark on your creative journey -- Find and clarify your creative vision -- Be free at last...to create -- Create your writing mission statement and quest -- Convert your vision into a career.

What professionals are saying
Inspiring, practical and supremely useful, this book will open your heart and mind to your writing and creative potential.
--Dan Poynter, author, The Self-Publishing Manual

David's guide is in its spirit generous; it offers its readers creative yet structured advice that should pay off.... It offers a let's get right down to it discussion of creative vision and the writing process. That Trottier is a writer and teacher who cares about helping others comes through.
--Sheila Bender, Editor of Writing It Real and author of many writing books.

I learned to write from Dave s books.
-- Donna Davidson, author of award-winning novels Elizabeth s Gift and Lord Kingsford s Quest

Read this book, boot up the computer, and get writing. Dave Trottier has the hand-holding/kick in the patootie double-whammy down pat. A great book for beginners and a wonderful refresher for experienced writers. Highly recommended.
-- Kristine L. Franklin, children s author, novelist, and freelance writer

A great book to help you decide your writing vision, get over your fears, and develop a plan for your career.
-- Christian Writers Fellowship

A wonderfully helpful guide for anyone who wants to start writing...and keep writing.
-- Stedman Mays, agent, Scribblers House LLC Literary Agency, and editorial director of the GoodShortNovels.com Review

Dave writes with obvious respect for writers. He goes deep into the heart and head with advice that leads to success. A first-class book.
-- Lucille S. deView, syndicated columnist and writing coach for major newspapers

About this title

About the Author

Dave Trottier is a successful writer, award-winning teacher, and in-demand writing coach who has helped hundreds of writers break into the writing business. He hosts keepwriting.com and keepliving.com.

He is also the author of The Screenwriter's Bible, The Freelance Writer's Bible, Dr. Format Tells All, hundreds of articles and stories, and has sold ten feature-length screenplays.

Review

Inspiring, practical and supremely useful this book will open your heart and mind to your writing and creative potential. --Dan Poynter, author, The Self-Publishing Manual

David's guide is in its spirit generous; it offers its readers creative yet structured advice that should pay off.... It offers a let s get right down to it discussion of creative vision and the writing process. That Trottier is a writer and teacher who cares about helping others comes through. --Sheila Bender, Editor of Writing It Real and author of many writing books.

Read this book, boot up the computer, and get writing. Dave Trottier has the hand-holding/kick in the patootie double-whammy down pat. A great book for beginners and a wonderful refresher for experienced writers. Highly recommended. --Kristine L. Franklin, children s author, novelist, and freelance writer

About this edition

• Publisher: Applewood Arts
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1885655134
• ISBN 13: 9781885655134
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 96