When a Writer Isn't Writing: How to Beat Your Blocks, Be Published and Find Your Flow - Softcover

Alexander, Jenny

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1910300055 ISBN 13: 9781910300053

Publisher: Five Lanes Press, 2015

Synopsis

Whether you're a new writer or published author, there will be times when you can’t get started, can’t keep going or feel like giving up altogether. Every writer and every block is different; there isn’t a one-size-fits-all solution. This book, by veteran author and creative tutor Jenny Alexander, is unique in offering a wide variety of different tools to help you identify what’s holding you back and find your own way forward. With chapters on getting ideas, starting new projects, drafting, redrafting and choosing your route to publication, this delightful and entertaining ‘must read’ for writers will help you iron out your problems and love your writing even more, with all its ups and downs.

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Review

Jenny writes in such an easy, friendly and re-assuring style that it’s tempting, if you are a galumphing reader like me, to speed through the pages. I’d advise reading this book with a pencil in hand, underlining sentences that resonate, and suggestions that require deeper pondering...
- Awfully Big Reviews

At first I made bookmarks on my Kindle edition, but soon found that I was bookmarking almost every page – there was so much that chimed with me. If you’re interested in finding fulfilment and happiness through writing, this book should be your companion.
-Armadillo Magazine (Editor's Choice)

Edition details

• Publisher: Five Lanes Press
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1910300055
• ISBN 13: 9781910300053
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 192