Book description
Your Writing Coach goes beyond other books that only discuss style
or selling. Jurgen Wolff, a highly successful author with vast
experience and credits from Hollywood to the BBC, shows aspiring
writers how to overcome fear, get past excuses and start writing!
Featuring exercises and quotes for encouragement, Wolff explains how
to hook readers and keep them engaged. He offers powerful tips on how
to be productive while still being creative and how to transform your
inner critic into a constructive guide to get past the dreaded
writer's block. Finally, he offers advice on marketing yourself and
your work and the tremendous opportunities offered by new media like
the Internet and podcasts. More than just a how-to book, Your Writing
Coach is a friendly companion and mentor, providing all the strategies
needed to build a career as a full-time writer.
"With compassion, wit and the wisdom gleaned from a long and
successful writing career, Jurgen Wolff guides you, step by step, on the
inner and outer journey to writing success. An invaluable tool for the
aspiring writer." --Robert Cochran, co-creator and executive
producer, 24 "Your Writing Coach pays as much attention to writers
as to what they write and should help seasoned pros as much as it will
help beginners. Jurgen Wolff is wise and constructive when it comes to
such issues as fear of failure, your inner critic, and rejection, as
well as brainstorming and finding the conditions in which to work.
Highly recommended." --Julian Friedmann, writer's agent, Blake
Friedmann, and editor, ScriptWriter magazine "This book is the real
deal--no fluff or padding, just concentrated insider knowledge. By far
the best book on writing I have read." --Rupert Widdicombe, writer
and journalist "This book is an antidote to the bad advice aspiring
writers are often given. There are only two books on writing I
recommend--Stephen King's and this one." --William F. Owen, author
of Blackfoot Is Missing "This book will help you find the insights
of the writing craft. Pick it up and let it guide you to success."
--Xavier Koller, Academy Award-winning director, Journey of Hope
"Jurgen Wolff demystifies the writing process in a series of
easy-to-understand steps guaranteed to make you a better writer."
--Phil Doran, author of the bestselling The Reluctant Tuscan
"Absorbing and inspiring, Your Writing Coach is destined to become
an instant classic. Jurgen Wolff's treasure trove of advice and insider
secrets will prove to be an indispensable friend to all those who aspire
to the writing life." --Amanda Barry Hirst, author of PR Power
Jurgen Wolff is a writer, teacher and NLP practitioner and the author of
five books, including Successful Scriptwriting (60,000 copies sold),Top
Secrets: Screenwriting, Do Something Different and Successful Sitcom
Writing as well as a dozen plays. His film credits include: Midnight
Man, The Real Howard Spitz starring Kelsey Grammer and Amanda Donohoe
(Fox), Two Guns (CBS), TV pilots includingThe Secret Life of Thomas B
(HBO) and many, many more. Most recently he collaborated on the hit TV
series LOST. He has consulted to TV companies around the world (BBC,
SKY, Columbia/Tri-Star) and written for newspapers including The Times.
He holds creativity workshops around the world for organizations such as
the Academy for Chief Executives, the University of Barcelona, the
Pilots Programme, the Bertelsmann Foundation, film schools in Cologne,
Berlin, and Munich, and many others. Born and educated in the US, Wolff
now divides his time between London and California.
