Write starts : prompts, quotes, and exercises to jumpstart your creativity / Hal Zina Bennett.

Includes bibliographical references.

How to use this book -- Get unreal -- Contradiction and paradox -- Treasure garden -- You do it so well -- Naturally supernatural -- Find your inner dog -- or cat -- Where dreams come true -- A mark in time -- Childhood remembrance -- Change of mind -- Caught in the act -- Don't be scared of Virginia Woolf -- The five senses -- Magical thinking : it's in the cards -- Chemistry of character interaction -- Out on a limb -- Embers of past wounds -- Sympathies for the villain -- From personal experience to literary artifact -- Transform your inner critics into allies -- Don't forget : the first person is a character, too! -- Welcome your muse -- Home again -- Writing a great story simplified -- Follow your passions -- Where characters are born -- Lonely road -- Snapshots in time -- The question is -- Checklist for creating characters -- The fine art of observation -- Solitude and creativity -- Writers' dreams -- Columbo's notebook -- Stillpoints : where hearts and minds meet -- Building mental bridges -- Seaside adventure -- Pretend you're psychic (maybe you are!) -- Awakening the human spirit -- The lost diamond solitaire -- What goes around -- Talk to your readers -- It was a dark and stormy night -- Writers block? Tell your reader about it -- Cabin in the woods -- Sensory intelligence -- Raw material of the writer's craft -- The old bookstore -- Variation is the spice of write -- Know when enough is enough.

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