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March 2000
Beginning or completing any writing project can be highly daunting work. Faded with the often terrifying blank page, many writers find themselves frozen by indecision and doubt. Creativity Rules! addresses these anxieties -- and the whole writing process -- through an extensive series of engaging exercises that allow the writer to break down a project into a collection of not-so-daunting "tasks" that put the writer directly and quickly into the act of writing.

Unlike many current books on the process of writing, Creativity Rules! transcends dry-as-dust formulas or off-in-the-ether philosophies. It's a practical, witty and inviting kick in the pants that helps the writer approach a seemingly unconquerable project with a handy fistful of powerful, proven, nuts-and-bolts writing strategies that encourage creative flights of fancy.

From assessing what the writer wishes to accomplish through conceiving, outlining and developing a story, Creativity Rules! provides sound, easily accessed tactics and exercises that are designed to make the act of writing both joyous and pain free.


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John Vorhaus

Product Details

  • Paperback: 280 pages
  • Publisher: Silman-James Press; 1st edition (March 2000)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1879505509
  • ISBN-13: 978-1879505506
  • Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.8 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #721,882 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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John Vorhaus is now known to one and all as the man who brought Radar Hoverlander - con artist extraordinaire - to life in the "sunshine noir" mystery novel, THE CALIFORNIA ROLL, and its acclaimed sequel, THE ALBUQUERQUE TURKEY. His other novels include UNDER THE GUN and WORLD SERIES OF MURDER, the latter available exclusively through Kindle.

John is also well known as the author of THE COMIC TOOLBOX: HOW TO BE FUNNY EVEN IF YOU'RE NOT. This seminal book on writing comedy for television and film is now in its fifth printing, and continues to be a definitive source of information and inspiration for writers from Santa Monica to Scandinavia. Its companion volume, CREATIVITY RULES, is similarly a crucial book for writers at any stage of development.

Not content to rest on those laurels, Vorhaus is also the author of ten books on poker, including the KILLER POKER series and, with Annie Duke, the revolutionary DECIDE TO PLAY GREAT POKER. "As a poker player," confesses Vorhaus, "I'm a pretty good writer."

An international consultant in television and film script development, Vorhaus has worked for television networks, film schools, production companies and film funding bodies in 26 countries on four continents. He recently worked in Moscow, running the writing staff of the Russian version of Married... with Children, and in Tel Aviv, consulting on the Israeli version of The Golden Girls. He also travels regularly to Nicaragua, where he builds social-action comedy/dramas to provide positive role modeling for the poor, young and disenfranchised of that embattled country.

Vorhaus is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University and a member of the Writers Guild of America. He has consulted to Walt Disney Feature Animation and taught at such institutions as Northwestern University, the American Film Institute and the Writers Program of the UCLA Extension. He tweet @TrueFactBarFact and secretly controls the world from johnvorhaus.com

 

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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Get! See! Do!, August 13, 2001
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This review is from: Creativity Rules: A Writer's Workbook (Paperback)
I have shelves and shelves of books on writer's techniques, the writer's life, writer's dreams, writer's habits, overcoming writer's block, etc., etc., etc. They are on my shelves because after I read them, that's where I put them. Creativity Rules! does not share space with those books. It's on my desk next to my writing spiral. It's like a basic fiction writing class in which the author speaks in a soothing voice--low and encouraging. Each tiny lesson builds on the tiny lesson before it, and before you know it, you've got some ideas and then a sentence or two and then - what's this? - a story. If you've been dissatisfied with other how-to books, give this one a try. You'll be writing before you know what hit you.
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22 of 24 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars An invaluable, comprehensive guide for aspiring writers., August 4, 2000
This review is from: Creativity Rules: A Writer's Workbook (Paperback)
In Creativity Rules!: A Writer's Workbook, television writer, teacher and consultant John Vorhaus draws upon his years of experience and expertise to create a complete approach to literary creativity and the creative process including making creative choices with confidence, improving access to our ideas, effectively resolving writer's block, inventing plots and characters, quickly generating stories and themes, and developing a daily discipline and practice of writing. Articulate, comprehensive, insightful, effective, practical, Creativity Rules! is "must" reading for anyone seeking to become professional and successful in their writing career regardless of the genre or media they choose to work in.
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14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A natural progression from Comic Toolbox, May 2, 2000
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For anyone interested in screenwriting, the good Mr Vorhaus'first book "The Comic Toolbox" is a must, even they were notparticularly aiming at the comic genre. In fact I have urged all myscreenwriter-wannabe friends to try it.

Someone has obviously said to Mr Vorhaus that there was a wider audience for his excellent views on writing and the writer's approach. He could have simply re-written CTX for the broader market, and repackaged it, but fortunately for us he has gone much further in expanding on his themes. For example, his previous excellent concept of the "Comic Perspective" has been further defined into into more focussed motivations which drive a character.

His chapter on getting over writer's block is worth the cover price alone, and there is also chapters with great advice on many aspects of writing.

Mr Vorhaus is totally honest with the reader -- occasionally painfully so -- however I do not believe his own character comes forth in Creativity Rules as it did in CTX. I was thinking this especially so in the early chapters.

I thoroughly recommend this book to anyone interested in writing, particularly screenwriting.

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