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The Writing Experience
"The Writing Experience... offers the beginning writer down-to-earth and proactive advice for how to start—and succeed—in writing. Dozens of clever writing prompts are guaranteed to get your pen or keyboard moving!" - Maria Schneider, Former editor of Writer’s Digest magazine
71 pages, Kindle Edition
First published April 9, 2009
About the author
George Angus
9 books87 followersBefore I get into the Bio, it's important for you to know that Goodreads refuses to allow me to remove some books of mine that are no longer available. So, the only available books I have are Talkeetna Trouble (on page 2), The Short Book of Short Shorts and The Writing Experience. All others listed on my page are no longer available. Thank you.
I’m George Angus and I am Tumblemoose.
I imagine the first question you may have is: “What the heck is a Tumblemoose?”
Ok, that’s a fair question.
About a decade ago I was talking with someone from the western US and they commented about having to dodge tumbleweeds on the highway. Me of quick wit and repertoire responded with something along the lines of being in Alaska and dodging tumblemoose. Well, the name just kinda stuck and so here we are.
Back in the early 90′s I was fortunate enough to have some articles published in the trade journals of my chosen profession (Emergency Medical Services). I had no idea at that time how important this was. I had a couple of years of successful writing projects and then I got busy operating a paramedic school and I ignored my writing career.
If I said we’re going to fast forward 15 years then I would be skipping over an entire chunk of my life. Since this is my “About” page and not my “Biography” page I’ll skip all the gory details. It’s probably good enough to say that writing was always a tickle in the back of my brain, but I had the unwieldy combination of not knowing how to start laced with a bit of fear. Fear of what, I’m not sure. Success, failure, being laughed at, the unknown, who knows. Most likely all of the above.
So, 4 years ago I started taking hesitant writing steps and those steps have turned into leaps. I’ve been writing web content for a number of sites, I’ve written several books an learned a lot along the way.
I’m George Angus and I am Tumblemoose.
I imagine the first question you may have is: “What the heck is a Tumblemoose?”
Ok, that’s a fair question.
About a decade ago I was talking with someone from the western US and they commented about having to dodge tumbleweeds on the highway. Me of quick wit and repertoire responded with something along the lines of being in Alaska and dodging tumblemoose. Well, the name just kinda stuck and so here we are.
Back in the early 90′s I was fortunate enough to have some articles published in the trade journals of my chosen profession (Emergency Medical Services). I had no idea at that time how important this was. I had a couple of years of successful writing projects and then I got busy operating a paramedic school and I ignored my writing career.
If I said we’re going to fast forward 15 years then I would be skipping over an entire chunk of my life. Since this is my “About” page and not my “Biography” page I’ll skip all the gory details. It’s probably good enough to say that writing was always a tickle in the back of my brain, but I had the unwieldy combination of not knowing how to start laced with a bit of fear. Fear of what, I’m not sure. Success, failure, being laughed at, the unknown, who knows. Most likely all of the above.
So, 4 years ago I started taking hesitant writing steps and those steps have turned into leaps. I’ve been writing web content for a number of sites, I’ve written several books an learned a lot along the way.
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May 26, 2017
This is a great book that I wish I would have read when I first started writing. Some of the things that I really liked:
- The book is short. Large volumes on writing advice are good if you like that kind of thing, and they have their place, but I like something short that I can get something out of quickly and then get back to writing.
- The book focuses on the basics. Just some sensible, everyday practices that you can implement to start out the right way, with positive, but realistic, expectations.
- It has exercises you can do to practice different types of writing.
- Even though the book is geared to the writer who's just starting out, it's nice for someone who's been at it a few years as a refresher of the basics. I lose sight of them sometimes.
- The book is short. Large volumes on writing advice are good if you like that kind of thing, and they have their place, but I like something short that I can get something out of quickly and then get back to writing.
- The book focuses on the basics. Just some sensible, everyday practices that you can implement to start out the right way, with positive, but realistic, expectations.
- It has exercises you can do to practice different types of writing.
- Even though the book is geared to the writer who's just starting out, it's nice for someone who's been at it a few years as a refresher of the basics. I lose sight of them sometimes.
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