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The 3 A.M. Epiphany: Uncommon Writing Exercises that Transform Your Fiction Paperback – August 5, 2005
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If you write, you know what it's like. Insight and creativity - the desire to push the boundaries of your writing - strike when you least expect it. And you're often in no position to act: in the shower, driving the kids to school...in the middle of the night.
The 3 A.M. Epiphany offers more than 200 intriguing writing exercises designed to help you think, write, and revise like never before - without having to wait for creative inspiration. Brian Kiteley, noted author and director of the University of Denver's creative writing program, has crafted and refined these exercises through 15 years of teaching experience.
You'll learn how to:
• Transform staid and stale writing patterns into exciting experiments in fiction
• Shed the anxieties that keep you from reaching your full potential as a writer
• Craft unique ideas by combining personal experience with unrestricted imagination
• Examine and overcome all of your fiction writing concerns, from getting started to writer's block
Open the book, select an exercise, and give it a try. It's just what you need to craft refreshing new fiction, discover bold new insights, and explore what it means to be a writer.
It's never too early to start--not even 3 A.M.
- Print length272 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherWriter's Digest Books
- Publication dateAugust 5, 2005
- Dimensions5.5 x 0.65 x 7.95 inches
- ISBN-101582973512
- ISBN-13978-1582973517
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- Publisher : Writer's Digest Books; 1st edition (August 5, 2005)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 272 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1582973512
- ISBN-13 : 978-1582973517
- Item Weight : 12 ounces
- Dimensions : 5.5 x 0.65 x 7.95 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #40,476 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #24 in Research Reference Books
- #89 in Writing Skill Reference (Books)
- #153 in Fiction Writing Reference (Books)
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Brian Kiteley's third novel The River Gods was published by FC2 and is available as both e-book and paperback. He has also published two novels, Still Life With Insects and I Know Many Songs, But I Cannot Sing, and two collections of fiction exercises, The 3 A.M. Epiphany and The 4 A.M. Breakthrough. He is at work on two linked novels set in Crete in 1988, about love, sun, sex, and the CIA, with cameos by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard. Brian Kiteley teaches at the University of Denver in the Creative Writing PhD program. His home page is:
https://www.briankiteley.com/
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Even if I only do a small fraction of the exercises ( I normally hate writing exercises; actually, I hate almost any exercise in any form) I know that my writing will benefit and I will emerge a happier, better man.
BUT
The type size is so tiny that if it were any smaller I would need a magnifying glass.
Think of the tiniest type in the cheapest classifieds in a newspaper.
Whatever possessed the publisher to make the book almost impossible to read?
Nonetheless, if you are OK to go blind in your attempt to read this it will be a good use of the last of your sight.
Why then the meager star count? I teach an adult ed writing course, and had preliminarily decided to use this as a main text. When I got my copy, however, I found that the text is so small that the book will be useless for some students. It is baffling to me that someone who presumably values books and cares for his readers would allow to be published a book so irresponsibly designed. Hence the the three stars: five for the content; one for the physical book.
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These exercises helped her to finish the first draft!
There is an abundance of exercises, meaning that you can find the ones most suited to you and your writing patterns.
I wouldn't recommend this for new writers (a collection of writing prompts is a much better bet and I recommend The Writer's Book of days by Judy Reeves) but for anyone who has material already and wants to improve their craft, or needs shaking out of a rut, this has to be one of the best books on the market.
I would say though, that the print in the book is way too small to be enjoyable. It was for this reason that I bought the Kindle version.





