Write Yourself Out of a Corner - 100 Exercises to Unlock Creativity

When you are facing down a blank page (or screen), a constraint-based prompt-for example, "you must use the words 'cloud' and 'green'" or "you must set the scene in a crowded grocery store"-can get your brain working in unexpected ways.

In this creative writing guide, long-time teacher and novelist Alice LaPlante shares 100 original exercises that will simultaneously push you into a corner and give you the tools to write yourself out of it. LaPlante explains the purpose of each exercise-to sharpen your ear for dialogue, generate surprising images or access intense emotions-and breaks down student examples to reveal how to achieve these goals. Whether you are looking to jumpstart new ideas or find a fresh angle on a work in progress, and whether you write fiction, creative nonfiction or poetry, Write Yourself Out of a Corner will strengthen your imagination and your craft.

About the author

Alice LaPlante is the author of the craft book The Making of a Story and the New York Times best-selling novel Turn of Mind. She has taught creative writing at Stanford and San Francisco State University and lives in Mallorca, Spain, with her family.

Summary

100 imagination-stretching writing exercises inspired by the idea of creative constraints

Product details

• Authors: Alice Laplante, LaPlante Alice
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.05.2023
• EAN: 9780393541847
• ISBN: 978-0-393-54184-7
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 36 mm
• Weight: 452 g
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