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The Writer's Toolbox: Creative Games and Exercises for Inspiring the 'Write' Side of Your Brain (Writing Prompts, Writer Gifts, Writing Kit Gifts) Paperback – April 26, 2007

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Writer's block has met its match with Writer's Toolbox!

Designed by a longtime creative writing teacher, this innovative kit includes a 64-page booklet filled with exercises and instructions that focus on a "right-brain" approach to writing. Sixty exercise sticks: First Sentences, Non Sequiturs, and Last Straws will get stories off the ground, 60 cards fuel creative descriptions and four spinner palettes will ignite unexpected plot twists. For any aspiring writer, this kit is the perfect first step on the path to literary greatness!

Inspires writers with creative prompts and samples
Gets writers in the right headspace to let creativity flow
Features 60 writing exercises and other creative games

Make those days and nights of struggling to create writing ideas go away without having to bury yourself in more books with Writer's Toolbox, which makes for the perfect gift for writers.

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64 pages
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Chronicle Books
Publication date

April 26, 2007
Grade level

8 and up
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13 years and up
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7 x 1.75 x 9.63 inches
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0811854299
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978-0811854290
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Jamie Cat Callan is a master teaching artist with the Connecticut Commission on the Arts. She has taught writing at N.Y.U., Yale University, U.C.L.A. Extension, Fairfield University, and Wesleyan University. She is also the author of three novels for young adults and a book on relationships for women. She lives in Massachusetts.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Chronicle Books; 40464th edition (April 26, 2007)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 64 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0811854299
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0811854290
Reading age ‏ : ‎ 13 years and up
Grade level ‏ : ‎ 8 and up
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.3 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7 x 1.75 x 9.63 inches

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Jamie Cat Callan is an American gal who grew up under the tutelage of her mysterious and elegant French grandmother. She's traveled to France many times and interviewed hundreds of French women (and more than a few men) to find out their secrets to love, romance, marriage and how they keep their ooh la la!
Jamie's essay on how she met and married her husband appeared in the New York Times Sunday Styles Modern Love column. She's a popular speaker on women's issues, love, marriage and leading a creative life. Please visit Jamie at www.JamieCatCallan.com.
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Jamie Cat Callan is the author of the recently released Parisian Charm School (Penguin Random House). She grew up in Stamford, Connecticut. She spent her summers with her French-American grandmother and under her tutelage, where she learned the secrets to a French woman's mystery and allure. Jamie first visited in France in 1976 and has returned many times since, interviewing thousands of French women (and more than a few men). She has been awarded two international artist residency fellowships from the Virginia Center for the Arts to write in the little village of Auvillar in Southwest France. Jamie's books, "French Women Don't Sleep Alone", "Bonjour, Happiness!" and "Ooh la la!" have been translated into thirty languages.
Jamie has received many awards for her writing, including the PEN Award, a Massachusetts Council on the Arts Fellowship, and the Goldwyn Award in Screenwriting. She is the creator of "The Writers Toolbox" from Chronicle Books. Jamie lives on a farm with husband in the Hudson Valley, where they grow apples and produce their own sparkling French apple cider. You can read the story of how Jamie met her husband in The New York Times Modern Love column. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/23/fashion/sundaystyles/23love.html Their life today was featured in the 2018 Vows "It's No Secret" column. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/31/fashion/weddings/its-the-little-things-like-coffee-cocktails-and-listening.html
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Just Some Fool

Not as helpful for me as I'd hoped..

Reviewed in the United States on September 17, 2021

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I see how this box is useful, and it helped me out a little.

However, it seems geared towards writing modern romance. Sure, sure, it's all about getting the creative juices flowing, and ideally once your brain is more creative, you can write whatever you want to write. The prompts talk about ice cream, and automobiles, and gyms, and things.

The concept is great, but it's not generic enough for me, OR, if it can't be generic, I'd like to see a Fantasy Version... and heck, it could be handy then for different themed versions. Of course, the printing, and marketing, and storing until sold, and selling, and such the different versions might not be worth it.

It's got some useful concepts, and it's better than regular old writing prompts, which haven't worked for me very well. The First Sentence to Non Sequitur and then Final Straw ideas are great concepts, way better than just writing prompts.

This book is great for those who are just looking to learn how to write, those who don't care what they're going to write, and those who are writing modern romance, and maybe just modern setting books. But, when I'm writing a fantasy story and pick up up a prompt that talks about ice cream melting on the counter top, my brain freaks out, and rebels. I try to use it anyway, try to imagine it's not ice cream, or perhaps they somehow have ice cream in this fantasy world, etc. etc. etc. but long story short, I find it more distracting than helpful when the prompts can't fit into what I'm already writing.

Still, kinda useful, not a total waste. Just, not has helpful as I had hoped. I may use it for practice, which is what it seems to be intended for, maybe I'll change my mind after using it a while.

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IronPaw Forge

Great gift

Reviewed in the United States on April 28, 2023

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Bought this as a gift for an aspiring writer. They loved it and said it is really fun and helpful.

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J in Mich

Missing parts - disappointing early end to effort

Reviewed in the United States on December 26, 2010

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Original review below - The author contacted me (see comments) and took care of this problem with a new copy plus provided the missing pieces by email. Updated to 4* (we have not played the complete game yet so maybe this will be revisited and hopefully up to 5).

Overall creativity and quality of the game is important but so is quality control. Maybe this is a rare occurrence or maybe not but after assembling the family with sharpened pencils and cajoling everyone to come to the table, reading the introduction and expending some effort to get my kids and wife a bit excited to try this we found the box did not contain the very first thing needed: The "first sentence" sticks. They had included 2 identical sets of the next set of sticks: The "non sequitur" sticks. It takes a bit of an effort to convince 3 kids to come to the table, listen to introductions read and start to gain excitement then a pretty big letdown to be sitting alone with scattered blank sheets of paper and unused but sharpened pencils.

This should be a 1-star review since it was not really usable and very disappointing for me. Not sure why I was generous with 2 - probably because I had such high hopes. If the publisher ships our replacements real fast I might update this. Right now, however, they do not seem to have any customer service line that is open until later after the holidays. We tried to search the internet to find where they may have made a list of the "first sentences" available but had no luck with that.

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Nicole.E.BoyMom

Some inappropriate storylines for children under 15

Reviewed in the United States on December 31, 2022

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I bought the Writers Toolbox for my 12 year old son who loves writing stories. As I was going through the box, I found some sample stories that were inappropriate for young children and even younger teenagers. I’ve included snapshots of some of the inappropriate material. If you remove the 9 inappropriate story starting sticks and the booklet that comes with the kit, the rest is appropriate. We are keeping it and removing the inappropriate parts.

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This is fun

Reviewed in the United States on January 22, 2022

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I use this as a family time game and discovered that we all can write fun, creative and funny stories. This is make a writer out of you. I highly recommend this game, especially for young children who can be encouraged to like writing and grow into excellent writers.

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Carolyn Brubaker

Great writer's tool

Reviewed in the United States on February 6, 2015

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As the author of 11 novels, I am no stranger to "gimmicks" aimed at stimulating a writer's creativity or breaking writer block. Most sound fabulous but when you actually use them, you wonder why you wasted your money and relegate them to the same dark corner as negative reviews. This is NOT one of those. Not only does it get your muse up and pumping, it's great fun too. I've started using it as a warm up in the morning before I begin writing. It never fails to put me in the mood to write. I've even started a new file for bits and pieces that I think might have possibilities. Well worth the money IMO!

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Jo Phillips

This jumpstarted my writing career

Reviewed in the United States on December 20, 2016

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These exercises seem like a game until you realize you’ve written a short story that wins a contest! That’s what happened to me using prompts from The Writer’s Toolbox. It also turned out to be a fun game after dinner one night. Each person took a prompt, read it out loud then expanded on it and we had a hilariously outrageous story. That’s how easy it is to let your imagination put ideas together. I’ve written three additional stories and am aiming for one a week. This toolbox jumpstarted my writing career.

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Ryan Morrison

Get Writing!

Reviewed in the United States on January 6, 2017

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I've been using the tool box for a week now and I've found it to be incredibly helpful. The book that came along with it was also really inspiring. The main focus of this toolbox is to just get you writing. It doesn't matter what it is, if it's good or if it makes sense. Just write, write, and write some more. Practice makes perfect and the toolbox offers a lot of inspiration and starting points, which is usually the hardest part for me. Big fan.

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Tatiana

Very nice

Reviewed in Germany on July 24, 2022

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Got this for my sister as a gift, she loves it

Man

A lot smaller than in pics

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 15, 2022

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It’s great for what it’s needed for but it does look a lot bigger in pictures roughly about the same size as an a4 piece of paper

Anthony S

Gift idea

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 3, 2022

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Dad enjoyed the sentiment of the gift but hasn't spoke about using it.

Leo

It really makes it easy for me because I'm honestly just lazy when creating ...

Reviewed in Canada on April 19, 2018

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I got this gift for my aspiring writer girlfriend. She uses it all the time and so do I. It really makes it easy for me because I'm honestly just lazy when creating a story, but this really opens up ideas that never occurred to me. Think of it almost like an intricate and open ended mad libs.

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Add Ingenuity!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 20, 2018

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With a little ingenuity you can adapt this to virtually any story, you don't have to go off the idea pieces verbatim, find another way to weave the concept or idea into your theme/setting etc.

I put together 1,650~ words for an opener to a story within an hour or so using this [I was taking my time!], and I have only just read some 19 pages of the 64~ page book that accompanies it.

While I don't really need this kit, it does have its uses, I was going to return it, but then applied some ingenuity [Yes, that word again] and repurposed it to be more useful for my intentions.

May remember to add to this review when I use it more further down the line.

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