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 What is unique about this book is it doesn't hand you the answers. As a writer (whether a novice or experienced), it asks questions - lots of questions. The authors arranged each section with topic-specific questions and a small nudge at the beginning of each chapter.
Reviewed by Elizabeth King Humphrey
Inside Writer's Guide to Discovering the Writer Within: Writing Your Way to Creativity
By Krista Barrett and Michelle Froese
2002, 264 pg, e-book
Topzone Publishing
ISBN 0-9731750-0-1
US$13.95
To order a copy of this book, http://writersguide.writergazette.com
If you are having difficulty diving into your writing, Discovering the Writer Within: Writing Your Way to Creativity might help. This e-book is divided into several chapters: The Writer Within, The Writer's Fears, The Writer's Accomplishments, The Writer's Perspective, Exercises for the Writer, and The Writer's Prayer. What is unique about this book is it doesn't hand you the answers. As a writer (whether a novice or experienced), it asks questions - lots of questions. The authors arranged each section with topic-specific questions and a small nudge at the beginning of each chapter.
Each page is arranged for the reader to read a question and participate by writing in the blank lines underneath. Some questions are geared for the experienced writer: "What reaction do you get from people when you tell them you're a writer?" Others are inclined to give a boost to exercising your writer's brain: "Write a poem with one-worded line about how you feel at the present moment." There are also questions about procrastination, favorite authors and books, and writer preferences, and more. At the end you are encouraged to pen your own Writer's Prayer.
Discovering the Writer Within may be what you are looking for if you need someone to ask probing questions about why you may procrastinate or what kind of reading material you keep in your bathroom. You may also be the kind of writer who needs the push that Barrett and Froese give when encouraging you to choose a completed writing exercise and submit it to ten places. This e-book seems more of a place for a beginning writer to keep thoughts about the writing process and face the fear of putting words on the page. Anyone who has published before may find it too basic, unless one is having trouble with putting pen to paper.
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