The Writer's Idea Book 10th Anniversary Edition - How to Develop Great
Ideas for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, and Screenplays
Book description
Where do you get your ideas?
It s a question that plagues every writer. And once you ve got an
idea, what then? Ideas without a plan, without a purpose, are no more
than pleasant thoughts. So how do you come up with those ideas, and
how do you turn them into writing that will engage your reader?
The Writer s Idea Book is here to help you find the answers.
Utilizing more than 400 prompts and exercises, you ll generate
intriguing ideas and plumb their possibilities to turn them into
something amazing.
This indispensable guide will help you:
- Develop good writing habits that foster creativity
- Explore your own life for writing material
- Draw inspiration from the world around you
- Find form for your ideas, develop them into a piece of writing,
and make them better
Let The Writer s Idea Book give you the insight and
self-awareness to create and refine ideas that demand to be
transformed into greater works, the kind of compelling, absorbing
writing that will have other writers asking "where do you get
your ideas?"
Jack Heffron has been a professional editor for more than 20
years, during which he has worked on well over a thousand projects. He
has published hundreds of magazine articles, columns, and short
stories, for which he has won numerous awards. He has written and
ghostwritten nearly a dozen books. He is currently editorial director
of Clerisy Press, a columnist for Cincinnati magazine, a
frequent contributor to manofthehouse. com, and an instructor in the
journalism program at the University of Cincinnati. He also teaches
annually at the Writing it Real conference. Jack lives in Cincinnati, Ohio.
