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The Writer's Idea Book

Since its publication ten years ago, The Writer's Idea Bookhas become one of the most popular books for writers. The 'secret' to its success is the number of idea-generating exercises. In this new edition, every chapter will feature new exercises, text, and examples/models. Some of the updated text will be drawn from Heffron's original sequel to the first edition, The Writer's Idea Workshop(now out of print), and some will be original to this edition. In addition, a section called 'Questions to Consider' will be added at the end of each chapter to generate further ideas, insights, and, most importantly, writing.

Subject
self-help
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 262 pages

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