Member Review
Review by
Bloss �, Reviewer
4.5 I had so much fun with this little workshop-in-a-book! I'm usually a faster reader/reviewer but I wanted to slow down my pace to engage fully with the book over the week-long period and 'take it out for a spin'... I'm so glad I did because this was awesome!
What stood out:
✏️ The conversational, accessible writing style was a huge boon to this workbook. I've read a few fiction-writing guides over the years and this was one of the best for using plain language, not giving heaps of 'rights' and 'wrongs' and normalizing experimentation. I loved it for this. Writing should be for everyone!
✏️ Throughout the book, there are a variety of exercises that will appeal to a diverse range of skills and mediums. While I enjoy the writing ones best, I deeply appreciated the scrapbooking, mixed media, acting, and other mediums of creativity that the book encouraged!
✏️ For writers that struggle with a dearth or ideas or idea overload, this book will help you generate or streamline your ideas into a coherent, workable thing. Many of the exercises are structured in exploration and play to see what has traction and what doesn't. I was very surprised at what sparked a meaty idea versus what didn't!
✏️ Writing doesn't need to be a punishment (where did this rhetoric even come from, that we must 'suffer' to write?) and this book encourages rest, taking breaks from writing, and allowing ideas to flow naturally instead of forcing them through punitive writing practices.
✏️ Including an example that spans the length of the book was such a great idea - watching how Adams' idea goes from a spark to a full story outline helps illustrate the exercises while also inspiring us that we don't need to over engineer our ideas right from go.
✏️ Adams is a natural accountability partner: as the book wraps up, she uses common roadblocks to redirect us back to inspiring exercises that will 'unstick' us and get us moving again. It's too easy to fall over at the first hurdle but Adams knows that and helps us out!
If you're searching for writing inspiration, want to play around with some ideas you're holding, or simply want to give writing a chance, this book is packed with exercises, helpful tips, examples, and a tailorable approach to get you loving what you write and writing what you love!
I was privileged to have my request to read this book accepted through NetGalley. Thank you so much, Author In Your Corner/Indigo Rose. ✨
What stood out:
✏️ The conversational, accessible writing style was a huge boon to this workbook. I've read a few fiction-writing guides over the years and this was one of the best for using plain language, not giving heaps of 'rights' and 'wrongs' and normalizing experimentation. I loved it for this. Writing should be for everyone!
✏️ Throughout the book, there are a variety of exercises that will appeal to a diverse range of skills and mediums. While I enjoy the writing ones best, I deeply appreciated the scrapbooking, mixed media, acting, and other mediums of creativity that the book encouraged!
✏️ For writers that struggle with a dearth or ideas or idea overload, this book will help you generate or streamline your ideas into a coherent, workable thing. Many of the exercises are structured in exploration and play to see what has traction and what doesn't. I was very surprised at what sparked a meaty idea versus what didn't!
✏️ Writing doesn't need to be a punishment (where did this rhetoric even come from, that we must 'suffer' to write?) and this book encourages rest, taking breaks from writing, and allowing ideas to flow naturally instead of forcing them through punitive writing practices.
✏️ Including an example that spans the length of the book was such a great idea - watching how Adams' idea goes from a spark to a full story outline helps illustrate the exercises while also inspiring us that we don't need to over engineer our ideas right from go.
✏️ Adams is a natural accountability partner: as the book wraps up, she uses common roadblocks to redirect us back to inspiring exercises that will 'unstick' us and get us moving again. It's too easy to fall over at the first hurdle but Adams knows that and helps us out!
If you're searching for writing inspiration, want to play around with some ideas you're holding, or simply want to give writing a chance, this book is packed with exercises, helpful tips, examples, and a tailorable approach to get you loving what you write and writing what you love!
I was privileged to have my request to read this book accepted through NetGalley. Thank you so much, Author In Your Corner/Indigo Rose. ✨
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