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Writing the Wave: Inspired Rides for Aspiring Writers
Where's your wave of creativity?
If you want to learn how to write, "Writing the Inspired Rides for Aspiring Writers" is the very first writing book designed especially for beginning writers who yearn to write more expressively.
Written with warmth and wit by internationally acclaimed writer and teacher Elizabeth Ayres, this 15th anniversary edition of a classic writing how-to book makes the creative process safe, easy and fun while honoring its spiritual depth and mystery.
Elizabeth shows you how it's done. With step-by-step instructions and easy-to-follow writing exercises, you'll be writing non-stop from the very first page, even if you've never written before. It's just like having a personal writing coach.
You can learn how to be a writer. Throw away those endless lists of writing prompts. Learn how to discover your own ideas with these break-through writing exercises that transform fundamental writing principles into concrete writing techniques you can use over and over, forever, whether you want to learn how to write fiction, nonfiction, poetry -- or something that doesn't even have a name yet.
Unlike other writing books, "Writing the Wave" couples inspiring writing exercises with expert and compassionate advice, to minimize the fears and maximize the joys of writing. And more advanced writers looking for a jumpstart will appreciate recovering their free-flowing creative wellspring.
There's a vast ocean of inspiration within you. The surf's up! The water's warm! Are you ready to take the plunge?
Phillip Lopate, editor of "The Art of Writing" and "Writing New York" says, “Elizabeth Ayres has thought long and hard about the writing process, and is one of the most seasoned and exemplary practitioners in the field of teaching writing. This book about writing is an invaluable distillation of her in¬sights and experiences. I cannot imagine any beginning or struggling writer not coming away with some inspiration from it.”
If you want to learn how to write, "Writing the Inspired Rides for Aspiring Writers" is the very first writing book designed especially for beginning writers who yearn to write more expressively.
Written with warmth and wit by internationally acclaimed writer and teacher Elizabeth Ayres, this 15th anniversary edition of a classic writing how-to book makes the creative process safe, easy and fun while honoring its spiritual depth and mystery.
Elizabeth shows you how it's done. With step-by-step instructions and easy-to-follow writing exercises, you'll be writing non-stop from the very first page, even if you've never written before. It's just like having a personal writing coach.
You can learn how to be a writer. Throw away those endless lists of writing prompts. Learn how to discover your own ideas with these break-through writing exercises that transform fundamental writing principles into concrete writing techniques you can use over and over, forever, whether you want to learn how to write fiction, nonfiction, poetry -- or something that doesn't even have a name yet.
Unlike other writing books, "Writing the Wave" couples inspiring writing exercises with expert and compassionate advice, to minimize the fears and maximize the joys of writing. And more advanced writers looking for a jumpstart will appreciate recovering their free-flowing creative wellspring.
There's a vast ocean of inspiration within you. The surf's up! The water's warm! Are you ready to take the plunge?
Phillip Lopate, editor of "The Art of Writing" and "Writing New York" says, “Elizabeth Ayres has thought long and hard about the writing process, and is one of the most seasoned and exemplary practitioners in the field of teaching writing. This book about writing is an invaluable distillation of her in¬sights and experiences. I cannot imagine any beginning or struggling writer not coming away with some inspiration from it.”
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260 pages, Kindle Edition
First published February 1, 2000
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June 11, 2023
Old old old. Skip it.
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November 17, 2008This is the book i've been waiting to buy, and it took me 5 years before I got it for only 150 pesos from a bookstore sale. I regret not having this book 5 years ago after forsaking it for buying a book on immunohematology which I badly need to pass my exams as a medical technologist. Well, patience pays.
July 2, 2012
Quite pleased with Ayres' approach to teaching writing. The exercises straddle the imagined and the practical, offering students to draw from the well of personal experience while fashioning fiction from creative impulses. The book underpins the author's online writing workshop, which I would highly recommend for writers of all levels.
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May 26, 2012
For an aspiring writer who needs a guide to go through the adventurous journey, this book is the one for you!
Ayres' chosen theme of using riding the waves as the metaphor to compare writing with is just so apt. Writing is going with the ups and downs of the waves, the gushing of the water at times and the sudden plateauing of ideas. This book is the surfboard that serves as the support and the teacher of anyone who dares enter the fun yet bumpy journey of writing.
Ayres' chosen theme of using riding the waves as the metaphor to compare writing with is just so apt. Writing is going with the ups and downs of the waves, the gushing of the water at times and the sudden plateauing of ideas. This book is the surfboard that serves as the support and the teacher of anyone who dares enter the fun yet bumpy journey of writing.
June 18, 2017
As far as books on writing go, this is a must. Other writing manuals that I know of, of which there are many, contain a lot more theory than this one. That is a strength of this book. Ayres takes you out of your thinking head and hurls you into the writing process. You cannot help but write pretty good stuff following these exercises.
January 5, 2017
Reading and working my way through this intriguing book for the second time. When I read over my notebook of work prompted by this writing workshop, I am amazed at the colorful descriptions, the cast of characters, back stories...that have spilled out of my brain and onto the pages.
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August 11, 2016leuk boek met heel veel schrijfoefeningen. Wel een beetje voor-schrijverig.
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