The Writer's Source Book: Teach Yourself: Inspirational ideas for your creative writing

by Chris Sykes

Is your creative writing in need of inspiration? Do you need confidence to create watertight plots and believable characters?

The Writer's Source Book provides dozens of practical exercises to help you create storylines, craft people and generate ideas, with support and creative insight for every stage.

It will give you support in identifying your genre and crafting your work around it, and help you to understand the complexities of plot and character before beginning to create your own.

Inspired and inspiring exercises will help you master the structure of your book, story or play, while focused and innovative advise will help those who have run into trouble. This is a technical manual ideal for any writer who needs to build, fix, polish or perfect their storyline.

208 pages, CD-ROM

First published January 1, 2011

Reviews

[Christine Ku · Rating 3 out of 5]

Fairly easy-to-read and I picked up some useful writing exercises for building characters, how different writing perspectives work via examples as well as what the author calls "removing scaffolding" that I find a very important insight.