Designed to help writers find inspiration anytime, anywhere, The Writer's Book of Matches is both muse and exercise partner for beginning and professional writers. This dynamic title: Is jam-packed with 1,001 creative prompts - more than any other book on the market Provides a spectrum of prompts, including situational, dialogue oriented, and point-of-view changing exercises Shares dozens of sidebars containing humorous and inspiring quotes from famous authors about the writing life, idea creation, and writer's block With appendices that show writers how to adapt the prompts in new and exciting ways, this book of writing matches will ignite writers' creative fires for years to come.
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This review is from: The Writer's Book of Matches: 1,001 Prompts to Ignite Your Fiction (Writers Digest) (Hardcover)
This kind of book isn't every writer's cup of tea, but it was exactly the sort of thing I was looking for! There are 3 types of prompts throughout: a line of dialogue, a sentence describing an action or setting a mood, or an "assignment" where the prompt is a little more detailed, immediately followed by a few suggestions for taking it in different directions. All 1,001 of them are viable jump-starts to a short story or scene and, as the authors point out, if you wrote one every day, you'd get almost 3 years out of this book. There's also an appendix with a game, where you roll a die to change some aspect of the prompt, such as gender, ethnicity, age group, etc., which extends the versatility of each prompt.
There aren't the usual navel-gazing fare like "Write about a time you were angry" or "Describe someone you know well" that are so often found in writing books. I have never found those kinds of suggestions useful for me. If I wanted to write autobiography-as-fiction, I'd keep a diary. I hope there'll be a sequel to this one. If you ever sat down to write and found yourself groping for somewhere to start, you'll find this book extremely useful.
13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
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Lots of Ideas to Get You Started,
This review is from: The Writer's Book of Matches: 1,001 Prompts to Ignite Your Fiction (Writers Digest) (Hardcover)
I've read, written and collected TONS of prompts of all kinds over the past couple of years. A lot of places repeat the same old tired prompts, but this book was filled with a large array of new prompts and 'thought joggers' that I haven't seen elsewhere.
I enjoyed just flipping through this book and now look forward to going back and start writing from the highlights I've made.
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Delightfully Entertaining,
This review is from: The Writer's Book of Matches: 1,001 Prompts to Ignite Your Fiction (Writers Digest) (Hardcover)
I actually picked mine up at my University's book store, and had my friends running to get copies when they read it. Possibly one of the funniest, and most entertaining anti-writer's block tools out there. Though I wouldn't suggest it for high schools per say since some of it may be "racy", as some reviewers pointed out though personally my old HS classmates came up with stuff racier then anything in there. For personal use though its fantastic- I've never cracked it open and been unable to write about something based off one of the prompts. The introduction is witty and makes you, or at least me, feel guilty about not writing everyday even if its only a paragraph or so. The prompts aren't anything too deep or profound, and I don't see this as a down side for the book. Rather it stays with the notion that the book is best used simply help exercise those creative brain muscles. I think it does a better job doing this then any of my creative classes ever have. I would say anyone who likes creative writing for the very sake of story telling, and is looking for something to help with those brain-dead fuddy-duddy moments, or something to help motivate daily writings, will love this book.
However, if your the type who wants to do something utterly profound with your writing prompts you're given- this probably isn't the best choice. It needs to be taken with a bit of humor and a willingness to write off of some of the oddest, most amusing, prompts I've ever seen.
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