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Writing on Both Sides of the Brain
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Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #176495 in Books
- Published on: 1990-12-17
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 160 pages
Editorial Reviews
Synopsis
Offers advice on improving one's writing and editing skills, discusses writer's block, techniques for generating new ideas, procrastination, and revision, and suggests useful exercises.
Customer Reviews
Love this book!
I'm a writer by trade, and I read this for the first time when I was still unpublished. I found it enormously encouraging, and it's still the book I go to when I'm tearing my hair out. It acknowledges how tough writing is, and it rewards you and me for the stumbling steps we take to get better at it. Plus, it gives us POWERFUL weapons to use against that critical MONSTER who lives in our brain! I recommend it all the time.
A delightful book on unlocking the creative genie in you.
More than just a bag of tricks, this brief work shows the reader how to get control of his internal critic (left brain) so that the creative right brain can do its magic.
An essential read for writers everywhere
I am a professional writer and until l read this book l didn't realise that l have been doing it incorrectly for all these years! The author suggests that we have two brains a `left brain' and a `right brain'. The right side is associated with creativity and flare whilst the left side is associated with analytical thinking and criticism. The author suggests that writer's block often occurs when we try and use both sides of the brain simultaneously -- we should first allow the creative side to take over and only when we have a good first draft should we allow the critical left side take over. In the real world this means that we should not write, for example, two sentences, stop and check our grammar spelling and readability, but instead we should write 2 or 3 paragraphs then check over the content. It sounds so simple but it really does work and for me at least has resulted in a faster working pace and enhanced creativity.
