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Write What You Know: A Writer's Adventure

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There is a wealth of good, solid information in this very creative and readable book on writing. Practical suggestions and concrete examples add to it's value. This is an important book for anyone who wants to write or has a story to tell. I truly enjoyed it.

In this book Georgia offers us a guide back to ourselves. The exercises not only help us to become better writers but help us to know ourselves better as well. Very practical and enlightening.

Some say write what you know. But how do you find out the things that will make you interesting? That will make a writer out of you? In Write What You Know author Georgia Jones takes you through the steps that she herself has taken along the path to better writing. Georgia, who has helped writers find their voices for over five years, and whose own books and articles have spanned a period of over 30 years, tells us how her own life affected her fiction, non-fiction, journalism, commentary, poetry, and plays. Patiently and with a wonderful prose, she assists you through a series of exercises. She entertains with story examples to demonstrate techniques. She describes complex ideas so simply that anyone who has the spark can continue to improve on the skill that must go along with the love of writing. Write What You Know is a book that can be used and enjoyed by the new writer looking for guidance, or is a book for the seasoned pro in search of a fresh outlook. And for $12.95, you get to meet an absolutely marvelous woman.

Don DeNevi

Georgia Jones has put together a writer's guide that mixes humor, guidelines, exercises and examples of real writing. This is all done in a way that gently draws the aspiring author into the process of writing. The book guides us through the elements of fiction including character, place, dialog and plot but each of these is brought to life in a way that makes one eager to start writing.

For example, as I read the section on development of a character for fiction, my first thought was that it is far more complicated than I expected. Yet, at the same time I felt that it would be truly fascinating to work with character in this way.

It's not so much that Georgia Jones makes writing look easy, but that it would be well worth the time and effort to build the skills that she guides us through. She shows us that writing is not so much a mystery as a challenge. She begins the book talking about how we write what we know. In the end we realize that we know far more than we ever imagined.