Summary
Find rock-solid story ideas before you start writing
Anyone who has been hamster-wheeling a story idea for years or has hundreds of pages exploring various approaches on their hard drive knows that there must be a better way. There is. Young adult novelist Denise Jaden shows exactly how to create the captivating stories that prevent dispiriting wasted time. Busting the "visitation from the muses" myth, she shows that inspiration is a skill writers can learn by understanding how story ideas work (or don't), fertilizing the ground for fresh and sound ideas, and moving swiftly through stuck points. Practical and inspiring, Jaden's approach celebrates the imaginative sparks that make innovations of all kinds possible while pinpointing the precise tools writers need to fan their unique creative flames.
Denise Jaden has written fiction for young adults and nonfiction for writers. Her works include Losing Faith, Never Enough, Writing with a Heavy Heart: Using Grief and Loss to Stretch Your Fiction, and Fast Fiction: A Guide to Outlining and Writing a First Draft Novel in Thirty Days.
(Bowker Author Biography)
