Write Now 100 Writing Prompts to Kick-Start Your Creativity

by Griffey, Harriet

• ISBN13: 9781784887674
• ISBN10: 1784887676
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2024-10-22
• Publisher: Quadrille

Summary

Writing for yourself is a wonderful way to explore personal creativity – each of these 100 prompts will enhance your skill and confidence and get you closer to being the writer you want to become.

Write Now is a brilliantly accessible book that demystifies the process and will help you see new ways to put pen to paper and discover your own unique writing style. Divided into 12 sections that range across voice, narrative, plot, structure, point of view, characterisation, dialogue, fiction, non-fiction, poetry, prose and memoir, Harriet Griffey shows you how to let go of any inhibitions, overcome writer's block and expand your writing potential.

Featuring creative writing tasks to develop ideas and skills, quick and simple word play tasks, as well as practical exercises, Write Now is an exciting way to unleash your inner wordsmith, kick-start your imagination and get you writing.

Author Biography

Harriet Griffey is a tutor at the Creative Writing Consultancy, and was previously a commissioning editor at George Allen & Unwin and editorial director at Macdonald Publishers. She also leads and facilitates writersretreat.org, is an ex-publisher, published author and journalist, and has an MA in Modern and Contemporary Literature. Author of over 20 books, she has been published by Penguin, Bloomsbury, Pan Macmillan and Hardie Grant publishers. She is also editorial consultant to the literary magazine One Hand Clapping, columnist at In The Moment magazine and cultural editor at The Ecologist. As a print journalist she was written for all the UK national newspapers, and was a past book reviewer at the FT. As a broadcast journalist she has worked for both the BBC and LBC radio.