Even when journaling on a daily basis, the writer is often faced with writer's block. Using journal prompts gives your writing a boost whether you are journaling at 6:00 am or writing at midnight. Prompts help you break through patterns, toxic relationships or expand your creativity using journaling as a means of going deep inside and finding answers that never can be found externally. The more you journal, the more creative you become, and the more creative you become the more productive ...

Following on the heels of 365 Days of Creative Writing, Author and Journal Aficionado, Rosemary Augustine, recently released the book Journal to a More Creative Self - offering over 150 more journal prompts for creative writing. The book uses special writing prompts to heighten your sensory awareness and gain intuitive insight and meaning to your surroundings, offering the reader an opportunity to stretch their creativity, while expanding their writing skills. Using the book across six wee...

LEARN HOW TO WRITE CREATIVELY WITH THIS COMPREHENSIVE AND PRACTICAL COURSE.The only comprehensive Creative Writing title on the market that goes beyond introducing the basic genres to offering a complete journey along the writing path, including material on editing, redrafting and polishing a piece of work. Featuring the unique Workshop exercises to encourage readers to hone their work rather than just progressing through a number of exercises.Takes the rea...

Published under a pseudonym, J. K. Rowling's brilliant debut mystery introduces Detective Cormoran Strike as he investigates a supermodel's suicide in "one of the best books of the year" (USA Today), the first novel in the brilliant series that inspired the acclaimed HBO Max series C.B. Strike.After losing his leg to a land mine in Afghanistan, Cormoran Strike is barely scraping by as a private investigator. Strike is down to one client, creditors...

The Follow-up to Steven Pressfield's bestselling THE WAR OF ART"You don't need to take a course or buy a product. All you have to do is change your mind." -- Steven PressfieldTURNING PRO IS FREE, BUT IT'S NOT EASYWhen we turn pro, we give up a life that we may have become extremely comfortable with. WE give up a self that we have come to identify with and to call our own.TURNING PRO IS FREE, BUT IT DEMANDS SACRIFICEThe passage from amateur to profess...

What if everything we have been taught about learning to write was wrong? In The Right to Write, Julia Cameron's most revolutionary book, the author of the bestselling self-help guide The Artist's Way, asserts that conventional writing wisdom would have you believe in a false doctrine that stifles creativity. With the techniques and anecdotes in The Right to Write, readers learn to make writing a natural, intensely persona...

Being a writer is not just about typing.It’s also about surviving the rollercoaster of the creative journey.Self-doubt, fear of failure, the need for validation, perfectionism, writer’s block, comparisonitis, overwhelm, and much more. When you’re going through these things, it can feel like you’re alone. But actually, they are part of the creative process, and every author goes through them too.This book collects the mindset issues that writers experience, that I hav...

"A treasure trove of resources . . . designed to get writing and thinking started." —Michael Steinberg, author of Still Pitching: A MemoirWhether you are a writer of fiction or essays, or want to explore poetry or memoir, Susan M. Tiberghien's twelve fundamental lessons will help you discover and develop your own distinct voice. Tiberghien's inventive exercises focus on the processes unique to each genre, while also offering skills applic...

Going beyond the typical "how to write" book, The Mindful Writer illuminates the creative process: where writing and creativity originate, how mindfulness plays into work, how to cultivate good writing habits, how to grow as a writer and a person, and what it means to live a life dedicated to the craft of writing. There's not a writer alive, novice or master, who will not benefit from this book and fall in love with it. Cover to cover, this wise little book is riveting and delight...

Writers flock to National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) each November because it provides a procrastination-busting deadline. But only a fraction of the participants meet their goal. Denise Jaden was part of that fraction, writing first drafts of two subsequently published novels in that tight time frame. In Fast Fiction, she shows other writers how to do what she did, step-by-step, writer to writer. To ensure success, her program begins a month before the month of drafting. Dur...

This book is a gem, if only for the list of creative words Patti had generously put together, to save the budding writer the time and effort of having to do so.Thanks Patti. Jeremy Poole.Includes Bonus reading includes Writing Tips from Authors.Participating Authors.David Bishop - The WomanSuzy Turner - The Ghost Of Josiah GrimshawElla Medler - Blood Is Power.Kenneth Hoss - Deadly Storm.Patricia Puddle - Ominous Love.Tarek H...

The first comprehensive work on nonfiction as an art form• Shows how nonfiction, especially how-to and self-help, can take on the same power and luminosity as great fiction• Develops processes to reliably induce the dreaming state from which all writing comes• Teaches the skill of analogical thinking that is the core perceptual tool for writers• Explores the subtle techniques of powerful writing, from inducing associational dreaming in the reader, to languag...