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When your character is in trouble, or you need them to be

March 28, 2012 by L. Darby Gibbs

Mad Scientist

There is a lovely little book called The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook.  This book is great if you are looking for a problem for your character to handle or your character is in a predicament you are uncertain how to bring to a proper conclusion.  Chances are this book or its travel version, will have the perfect get out, get in, get them before they get him/her idea that will fit your plot handily.  Comedy or serious trouble, this book will provide.  Is your character being followed, lost in the woods, dealing with a volcanic eruption?  Check out this book.  Scam artist, runaway horse, mad scientist…..

Filed Under: Book Reviews, Writing habits, Writing Meditations Tagged With: advice, Books and blogs, creative writing, resource, Tools for writing

Running out of ideas?

March 14, 2012 by L. Darby Gibbs

Every writer needs a little help some time. So here is a book that might just help. A Writer’s Book of Days.  I purchased this from Writer’s Digest years ago, but it is still available, paperback and eBook format.  It offers so much to a writer. Besides supplying daily writing prompts, it offers insight into the minds of productive, imaginative authors along with the opportunity to gain a little insight about oneself as a writer.

It offers the following:

  • exercises to improve writing
  • 365 days of writing prompts
  • questions to consider about writing habits and desires
  • short quotes that encourage and motivate the writer
  • other writers’ experiences

It’s a handy little book that I have used privately and as a textbook for my creative writing students.  Each student knows to just turn to the page for the day’s date if a class day is missed, and the prompt is the same as his/her peers responded to that day.  I don’t use the other features daily in class, but some days, they are the perfect supplement to the day’s instruction.

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