The Writing Notebook: Family

The Notebook for Your Next Book

Author: Shaun Levin

The Writing Notebook: Family will help you unravel and bring to life any family drama. Here you'll find the inspiration to explore your own ancestry, write a vast family saga spanning generations, or tell the story of a wildly dysfunctional family

Suitable for writers and foodies of all levels, this book offers writing prompts and activities, suggestions on structuring your book and more.

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Suitable for writers and foodies of all levels, this book offers writing prompts and activities, suggestions on structuring your book and more.

Description

The only way to write a book is to write it. For writers and storytellers of all levels, The Writing Notebook is both guide and workspace. It offers writing prompts and activities, suggestions on structuring your book, and enough blank pages in which to write it. With description workouts, list-making exercises, a reading list, and ideas for cover design, you'll never be at a loss for inspiration wherever you are. For first-time writers or experienced authors, The Writing Notebook will take you to surprising places, spark your imagination, and be the pages on which you write your next (or first) book. Shaun has taught writing for twenty years in colleges, schools, adult education and other settings, and run workshops in art galleries, bookshops, cafés, parks, a cemetery, and a zoo. He is the founding editor of the literary journal Chroma and the director of Treehouse Press.

About the Author

Shaun Levin is a South African writer based in London. His first short story was published in 1992 and he has gone on to publish novellas, a short story collection and chapbooks. He has been teaching creative writing for almost twenty years, and is passionate about introducing writers to new ways of approaching writing and ways to deepen their practice. Since 2012 he has been devising and making Writing Maps, and has won several prizes for his work.

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The only way to write a book is to write it. The Writing Notebook, the fi st notebook for writers and explorers of all levels, is both a guide and workbook. It offers writing prompts and activities, suggestions on structuring your book, and enough blank pages on which to write it. With description workouts, list-making exercises, a reading list, and ideas for cover design, you'll never be at a loss for inspiration wherever you are. Each notebook has a different topic: 1. The Writing Notebook: Family will help you unravel and bring to life any family drama. Here you'll find the inspi ation to explore your own ancestry, write a vast family saga spanning generations, or tell the story of a wildly dysfunctional family. 2. The Writing Notebook: Food will steer you through writing a book on any culinary subject, whether it's a cookbook, a food memoir, a book about a specific in redient, or a sumptuous novel. 3. The Writing Notebook: City you'll be able to write about your time in any city, a novel set in a real or imagined city, or a book about a specific place, be it Paris, Mumbai, or Buenos Aires.

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The only way to write a book is to write it. For writers and explorers of all levels, The Writing Notebook is both guide and workspace. It offers writing prompts and activities, suggestions on structuring your book, and enough blank pages in which to write it. With description workouts, list-making exercises, a reading list, and ideas for cover design, you ll never be at a loss for inspiration wherever you are.The Writing Notebook: Family will help you unravel and bring to life any family drama. Here you ll find the inspiration to explore your own ancestry, write a vast family saga spanning generations, or tell the story of a wildly or mildly dysfunctional family.