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Search - You've Got a Book in You: The Step-by-Step Guide to Writing the Book of Your Dreams

You've Got a Book in You The StepbyStep Guide to Writing the Book of Your Dreams
Author: Elizabeth Sims

Geared toward all ages, experience levels, and genres. The quintessential writer's guide, this book has something of value regardless of the reader's experience level or genre interest. With "writing blasts" (aka prompts/exercises), brainstorming, organizing, and writing small pieces at a time, writers will accrue the story patches they'll sew i... more »nto a full-fledged novel. You've Got a Book in You is a great book for beginners or for those looking to refine their skills and renew their creative spark. * Presents writing as a skill anyone can learn. This book presents writing as a certain kind of work, work that anyone can learn how to do, and to do well. You don't need some magical quality called "talent" or "inspiration"; you need skills-skills that can be acquired by anyone who is willing to put time and energy into the process of acquiring them. It doesn't have the arrogant undertone found in other writing books. You've Got a Book in You is not simply a collection of tips and tricks from the pros, nor is it a system; rather it is a method-based model: that is, first a plan, then a series of simple processes for the reader to use to find his or her own way through conceptualizing, then writing, their book. It will help readers convey the heart of their story plainly and truly, since often what makes a story personal and special gets lost in the way novices try to express it. In addition, this book helps readers to decide whether their book should be fiction or non-fiction. This is a step beginners often need help with and most writing guides miss. Ultimately, You've Got a Book in You is a progression of friendly, funny, dear-friend-telling-it-to-you-straight chapters on: * A facet of writing and how to do it, or * A problem of writing and how to solve it. Everything is presented in short, easy-to-understand chunks, with plenty of supplementary sidebars and exercises readers can apply to their own work. Through this, readers will learn that writing itself is not the problem. The problem is worry; whether it's manifested as perfectionism, fear of failure, or insecurity. Once writers learn to relinquish their worries, their writing flows freely. Not that they don't have to put in effort; accomplishing anything worthwhile takes effort. The idea is to eliminate excess effort, and to eliminate self-defeating effort.

ISBN-13: 9781599635545
ISBN-10: 1599635542
Publication Date: 5/13/2013
Pages: 240
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Publisher: Writer's Digest Books
Book Type: Paperback
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