Creative Juices: A Splash of Story Craft, Process and Creative Soul Care

Creative Juices will energize writers who want to deepen story craft and improve their writing process. Fiction and nonfiction writers alike will find the effective how-to packaged in snackable content. Brief explanations, examples and exercises offer strategic support for improving writing. Longtime professor, writer and coach Cynthia Beach shows how to:•Care for creativity and creative wounds •Shape an effective writing game plan •Master showing tools and craft tools Creative Juices answers questions like “How can writers keep their creativity fresh and green?” or “What are some needed items for a writer’s first aid kit?” Writers who struggle with perfectionism will encounter life-coaching tips that can ease stifling habits. Story craft chapters cover typical design elements from characterization to dialogue. What’s unique, though, is that Creative Juices offers different ways of considering plot and point of view. And while the craft section covers familiar idioms like “show, don’t tell,” it also adds fresh items like how to write memory blurs—when memory surges into the present—and using poetic tools to intensify a scene.Religious writers will find “Conversations from the Deep,” where missional writing is contrasted with formational writing and an explanation of craft moves like Sol Stein’s “competing scripts” that convey spiritual realities well. The last section, “The Junk Drawer,” includes effective ideas for managing a critique group along with MFA-level workshop methods. Last chapters examine hiring a freelance editor, writing mission statements and publishing trends. “I collect writing books like an addict and keep them close for a fix. After reading Creative Juices, I’m happy to report there’s a new drug in town. From Creative Juices: “The writing journey bruises and breaks us….We need to pack a first aid kit. And we need it on hand at moment’s notice.” This book should be in that first aid kit. You’ll find hope for lethal perfectionism and blunted courage. Beach culls insights from myriad sources and offers energizing takes of her own to hearten a writer’s soul. Creative Juices is a book-sized writer’s conference.” —TRACY GROOT, Sentinels of Andersonville, The Maggie Bright, Madman“Cynthia Beach’s Creative Juices is kicky and fun and does just what it says: it splashes the dry artistic soul with just the right juices. We’re lucky to have this lively fruit from so many years of Beach’s knowledge and experience.” —LESLIE LEYLAND FIELDS, Your Story Matters, The Wonder Years“With Creative Juices, Beach has given us writers a road map, gently and patiently helping us to navigate our way along the writing life. Whether you are a writer with many miles under your belt or a wide-eyed writer just setting out, this is for you.”—SHAWN SMUCKER, Light from Distant Stars, The Day the Angels Fell
ASIN: 0692039805
VSKU: BVV.0692039805.G
Condition: Good
Author/Artist:Beach, Cynthia
Binding: Paperback
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