TY  - BOOK
AU  - LaPlante,Alice
TI  - Write yourself out of a corner: 100 exercises to unlock creativity 
SN  - 9780393541847 (paperback)
AV  - PN 187 L314w 2023
U1  - 808.02 
PY  - 2023///
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - W.W. Norton & Company
KW  - Creative writing
KW  - Escritura creativa
KW  - Arte de escribir
KW  - Authorship
KW  - Autoría
N1  - Includes bibliographical references; Using constraints to generate creative work -- Writing from your particular "location" -- Exercises -- Afterthoughts
N2  - "100 imagination-stretching writing exercises inspired by the idea of creative constraints, from the author of The Making of a Story. When you are facing down a blank page (or screen), a constraint-based prompt-for example, "you must use the words 'cloud' and 'green'" or "you must set the scene in a crowded grocery store"-can get your brain working in unexpected ways. In this creative writing guide, longtime teacher and novelist Alice LaPlante shares 100 original exercises that will simultaneously push you into a corner and give you the tools to write yourself out of it. LaPlante explains the purpose of each exercise-to sharpen your ear for dialogue, generate surprising images, or access intense emotions-and breaks down student examples to reveal how to achieve these goals. Whether you are looking to jumpstart new ideas or find a fresh angle on a work in progress, and whether you write fiction, creative nonfiction, or poetry, Write Yourself Out of a Corner will strengthen your imagination and your craft"--
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