A Writer's Book of Days: A Spirited Companion and Lively by Judy Reeves

By Judy Reeves

Playwright and editor Judy Reeves has taught writing, led inventive writing workshops, and took part in writing teams for years. A Writer’s booklet of Days is a compilation of all that she’s realized from getting jointly to write down with other folks. She says, “the ebook happened simply because I observed the adaptation ongoing, ordinary perform can make in a writer’s life.” perform makes excellent, and this booklet makes perform effortless through offering writers and would-be writers with stimulating subject matters, worthy guideline, per month instructions, dozens of inspiring rates, writerly lore, and counsel for precise writing periods corresponding to marathons, cafe writing, and alternative ways to make the paintings of writing extra inventive and enjoyable.

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Or write an after midnight memory. Prompts aren't themes for compositions or essays. " The idea is not to think about what the prompts mean or how to interpret them. Just start writing. The freedom to let your writing go down any open road is one of the delights of writing to suggested topics. You don't even have to use the prompt itself! Different writers respond to different invitations. Some writers resonate with concrete images, others like abstract. And often, the less said about a prompt, the more wide-open the invitation for the intuitive to work.

The energy in the room is palpable; you can feel it sidling up against you, nuzzling your elbows. You can taste its electric hum. Sometimes, just for the quick thrill of it, I look up from my notebook at the bent heads, the moving hands. I love the sensation of being in the space of writers writing. These remarkable creators < previous page page_xviii next page > < previous page page_xx next page > Page xx write. Call it a collective energy, the creative force. Magic. I say the Muse likes to work crowds.

Reeves not only provides the creative inspiration to get us writing and keep us going, she suggests exactly the right themes and daily writings to tease out the spiritual gifts of our own creative voices. " Hal Zina Bennett, author of Write from the Heart and twenty-five books of nonfiction and fiction "Hats off to Judy Reeves for this practical compendium for the budding writer. Writers have long known that daily practice is what it takes, and Ms. Reeves gives us a helping hand with daily writing exercises, useful inspirations, and pertinent quotes from Mick Jagger to Willa Cather.

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