Book description
This book will show you how your own personal experiences can
provide you with an endless supply of ideas for your writing - whether
fiction or non-fiction. You will learn how to write about what you
know - and you certainly know a lot. The good news is that the older
you are, and the older you get, the more experiences you have had - so
you'll always have something to write about. The author, Lynne
Hackles, will show you how to make your own 'Raking up your past' file
- using memories, lists, diaries, newspapers, smells, family trees,
etc. Plus how to turn your own anecdotes, recounted to friends and
family, into useful prose; and how to fashion the passed-down history
of your ancestors into a family saga. With this book you'll also learn
how to: * Sell a snippet of conversation * Make money by sharing
secrets * Take your boss and your best friend and come up with a new
character * Sell one event in your life to several different markets *
Impart knowledge you didn't think you had to people who didn't know
they needed it * Use the emotions, traumas, joys and experiences of
your own life to make your writing stronger and more saleable With
this book you'll never run out of ideas, and writer's block will be a
thing of the past.
