The Write-Brain Workbook Revised & Expanded: 400 Exercises to Liberate Your Writing

by Bonnie Neubauer

Banish the Blank Page with Hundreds of Unique Writing Exercises!

If you're battling writer's block, or if you're just looking for ways to flex your creative writing muscles, "The Write-Brain Workbook Revised & Expanded" will ensure that you never face another wordless day. This massive tome is brimming with 400 stimulating writing prompts--plus 400 supplemental exercises to take your creative work even further--each on its own beautifully designed, full-color page, providing plenty of room to write and explore. You'll create quirky characters, discover fresh twists on classic word games, sample new forms, and generate scores of ideas for short stories, poems, articles, and even novels. Write, scrawl, scribble, and dream on each page--the possibilities are endless!

"The Write-Brain Workbook" will help you: Write without the pressure of preconceived expectations.Tailor your unique writing process.Build the momentum of a quick, daily writing practice.Apply the breakthroughs from your daily practice to your "real" writing.Expand how you see yourself as a writer.Experiment with different ways to approach writing.Affirm your commitment to being a writer.Jam-packed with exercises you can return to again and again and vibrant, creativity-jolting illustrations, "The Write-Brain Workbook" is bigger and better than ever. Whether you want to revel in the pure joy of writing or are just getting started, this workbook gives you the means to hone your writing skills, conquer writer's block, and have fun in the process!

Genres: Writing, Nonfiction, Reference, Self Help, Language

392 pages, Paperback

First published November 27, 2005

Reviews

[Mitchlav · Rating 5 out of 5]

I had some very cool experiences with this workbook. I would half-heartedly start one of the exercises and then become completely engrossed in it. More than once, one of the exercises turned into a first draft of a scene I used in a larger work.
Not everyone will respond to the sort of challenges in Write-Brain, and I thought I was one who would not. I was wrong. Give Write-Brain a look and after you put it down, give it a second look. You might be surprised what you accomplish using these prompts.

[Leticia]

In “The Write-Brain Workbook, 366 Exercises to Liberate Your Writing” author Bonnie Neubauer provides a year’s worth of fun writing exercises guaranteed to stimulate your imagination and get your creative juices flowing. A colorful and beautifully illustrated workbook where in only 10 minutes a day, you can work on overcoming writer’s block, or simply warm-up before doing other writing. At the bottom of each page is an additional exercise called “Take the Next Step” to challenge you further.

[Misty Provencher · Rating 5 out of 5]

If you're looking to stimulate your creativity~ this book is the bomb. It is one of my favorites for getting my mind out of a rut and moving in new directions. I love the illustrations and photos and set up. Everything about this book helps release my boundaries and work new avenues I hadn't before.

[Longhairpanda · Rating 1 out of 5]

If a could give it a half a star...

[Peggy · Rating 4 out of 5]

Colorful and creative pages for writing prompts. Just enough - but not too much.

[MaryAnn Ward · Rating 5 out of 5]

Wow! I love this book personally, as an author, and also use it extensively for our writing club! Thanks.

[Jen Fumarolo · Rating 3 out of 5]

It's difficult to say you've "read" this one when it's a book of projects, but I've been through it enough times, I'm taking it off the "currently reading" shelf. It could stay there forever, really.

This is a fun little book of writing exercises that I sometimes turn to when I'm feeling blocked. Sometimes it just makes me more frustrated though, so I'm giving it 3 stars (essentially for making me work harder).

[Maryellenmrphy · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is basically a workbook of writing exercises to help get you thinking creatively. It's amazing: a friend of mine showed it to me because of a class project we were doing and I ended up asking for it for Christmas. I haven't actually done any of the exercises yet, just opening it and looking through makes me want/need to write.

[Eliza · Rating 5 out of 5]

LOVE love LOVE! this book! I wish I had the funds to buy each kid a copy. It would be a great writing workbook of sorts. The pages are so colorful (and anyone that knows me knows that that makes me UBER happy!) The exercises are great and really get the kids writing stuff they wouldnt normally have thought of. Great writer's block breaker!

[Elisabeth · Rating 5 out of 5]

REALLY love this book! The exercises are brilliant and totally random, catching you off guard every day; the illustrations are eye-catching and whimsical; the extra challenge step for each day really forces you to stretch and write more than you had originally planned. I'm so glad I bought this workbook and I plan on using it for quite a few years!

[everinasweater · Rating 4 out of 5]

wonderful exercises to give you a jolt when facing a brain freeze or low creativity. the only problem is, it's hard for me to want to write IN the book, because i want to use the tools over & over again. just starting to try and really utilize this one that's been on my shelves for a year.

[Susie · Rating 3 out of 5]

Beautifully made but poorly bound. I've had to purchase 3 copies of this book, and they've all fallen apart. There are some great ideas for use in an English class if you like your kids to complete creative writing journals.

[Becky Hoffman · Rating 4 out of 5]

A great book filled with exercises to help get your creative writing mojo going. Some of the stories I ended up writing in the exercises worked out into a book format and some of them were just hilarious. Definitely worth the money.

[Rose · Rating 3 out of 5]

A book of random writing exercises. It's fun, and I've done quite a few of the writing prompts within it, but it's not so much a writing guide with any kind of structure as it is a grab bag of different prompts to do either daily or just in separate spurts.

[Lindsay · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is like a coloring book for adult writers. It seems too fun to be allowed.

[Meg · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book has 366 daily exercises for writing. Prompts (short) and such. It's suberbly awesome! :) Favorite writing book yet!

[Kate · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great for a daily creative writing exercise.

[lyndsay ortiz · Rating 5 out of 5]

Really fun, and very similar to This Book Will Change Your Life.

[Dana Jerman · Rating 3 out of 5]

SO INCREDIBLE when it comes to teaching writing, or getting wanna-be writers to just bang out an exercise already. For young and old alike.

[Anna · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love this book! It has creative writing exercises for a whole year! I especially like how all the pages are individually designed. This book bursts with creativity!

[L.A. Jacob · Rating 2 out of 5]

Pretty pages of writing prompts. Been there, done that.