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Write from the Start: Discover Your Writing Potential Through the Power of Psychological Type

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A much needed, practical book on how to make writing work easier while at the same time producing higher quality results. Ann Loomis does this by using personality type and brain hemisphere theories to describe the natural gifts and potential trouble spots of different people. Other books have done this, but what makes this book so valuable is the abundance of tools, examples, and techniques you can apply to make your writing process yield successful results. This book is also unique in the way that it describes the writing profiles of all sixteen MBTI types and how to use your type preference to your benefit. For those of you who don't particularly like to write but are required to, working with ideas in this book will make your job easier -- and you may even start to enjoy writing. For those of you who like to write, you will find many ideas on how to make your writing more appealing to people who are very different from you. At the same time, it will give you renewed confidence that your style needs to honored even when others are trying to tell you to do it their way.

Wow did I waste my money buying this turkey. It divides the writing process into brainstorming, outlining, drafting, and polishing. This is a TERRIBLE way to teach people how to write. It assumes that you first have fully-formed, well developed ideas, then you record them, then you check your spelling. This method works for very, very few people, because it ignores the fact that writing itself is part of the creative process. Furthermore, the psychological type stuff in this book reads like it was written and researched entirely over a long weekend. For each chapter (brainstorm! outline! draft! revise!), the author wrote a half-dozen jazzy little bullet points for each of the sixteen types. Anyone who has read a single book about psychological type will find these points colossally, mind-numbingly obvious. News flash! S types want to keep things simple! N types like to use big words! J's, don't you rush to conclusions. P's, stop procrastinating. Uh. Duh. I want my time and my 21 bucks back. There are many better books on writing out there.

Right away, I discovered several things that had been right in front of my face, but had been unable to recognize until I read the book.

This adds a lot of insight for aspiring or published writers-especially if they have areas with which they struggle and don't quite understand why.

Buy it!