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    Get Writing
    Get Writing
    Get Writing
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    Get Writing

    By Janice Hally

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    A two week creative writing course offering inspiration and motivation through daily practical writing assignments.

    In two weeks you will:

    Clarify your motivation for writing as well as the kind of writing you'd like to do.

    Experiment with expressing your own feelings and experiences; getting inside your characters heads; and turning a static situation into a dramatic, dynamic scenario.

    Get inspiration from your passions, your memories, recalled experiences and feelings; and the characters you’ve come across who have influenced your life.

    And above all you will learn how to avoid the blank page; get the ideas out of your head and on to paper; and develop the writing habit!

    Learn the secrets of successful writers as well as writing tips and advice on how to build a well of ideas so that inspiration is always at hand.

    If you have always wanted to write but found it difficult to know where to start, Janice Hally's "Get Writing" will help you to let your creativity flow.

    Readers' testimonials received by the author:
    "incredibly inspiring ... a great strategy" Gary P
    "a breath of inspiration!" Greg C
    "illuminating beyond words" Tessa S
    "useful, motivating and reassuring" Karen J
    "I thoroughly enjoyed doing it and found it very helpful" Eileen K

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherVoyager
    Release dateMar 10, 2011
    ISBN9781458023896
    Get Writing
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    Janice Hally

    Janice Hally is a Scottish screenwriter with more than 300 hours of prime-time television drama to her credit. She has also written fiction and non-fiction books. Her latest book, published June 2010 by French publisher Hachette, is "Distant Echo", a psychological thriller. A follow-up was commissioned and will be published in 2011. Current commissions include the big screen adaptation of Peter May's "The Killing Room" for a French film production company.

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    Get Writing - Janice Hally

    GET WRITING

    Janice Hally

    Smashwords Edition

    Copyright 2011 Janice Hally

    All rights reserved

    This ebook is licensed for the personal use of the purchaser. It must not be re-sold, rented, passed to other users, reproduced or transmitted in any form by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information or storage retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner.

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    Table of Contents

    PART ONE

    INTRODUCTION

    STARTING OUT

    WRITING ASSIGNMENTS FOR THE FIRST WEEK

    DAY ONE

    DAY TWO

    DAYS THREE AND FOUR

    DAY FIVE

    DAY SIX

    DAY SEVEN

    TAKING STOCK

    PART TWO

    FINDING YOUR SUBJECT

    WRITING ASSIGNMENTS FOR THE SECOND WEEK

    DAY ONE

    DAY TWO

    DAY THREE

    DAY FOUR

    DAY FIVE

    DAY SIX

    DAY SEVEN

    IN CONCLUSION

    ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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    Introduction

    If you have always wanted to write but found it difficult to know where to start, 'Get Writing' will help you to let your creativity flow.

    This two week creative writing course offers inspiration and motivation through daily practical writing assignments

    In two weeks you will...

    Clarify:

    - your motivation for writing

    - the kind of writing you'd like to do

    Experiment with:

    - expressing your feelings and experiences in first person

    - getting inside your characters heads

    - turning a static situation into a dramatic, dynamic scenario

    Get inspiration from:

    - your passions

    - your memories, recalled experiences and feelings

    - the characters you’ve come across who have influenced your life

    And above all you will learn how

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