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Title: The Observation Deck: A Tool Kit for Writers by Naomi Epel ISBN: 0-8118-1481-5 Publisher: Chronicle Books Pub. Date: September, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.93 (15 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: An invaluable tool
Comment: I'll make this brief: after struggling with writer's block, lack of inspiration, and listless attempts at writing for months, I picked up The Observation Deck in the hopes that it might jump-start my creative fires. The same night I opened it up and read the book, I sat down and penned three thousand words, with ideas for many thousands more swimming around in my head.
I have a feeling I'll soon be wondering how in the world I got along without this little deck of cards. I wholly recommend this deck if your creativity is suffering, you need a fresh perspective, or just want to put a new spin on your writing. I have found it to be an invaluable tool -- some of the best money I've spent in quite a while.
Rating: 5
Summary: Great for established as well as beginners
Comment: While The Observation Deck is a great tool for getting unstuck, I think it also offers wonderful tips for established writers for whom getting unstuck is not such a problem. I've been virtually a full-time writer for about seven years now. I just completed a book that is a better book for my having read The Observation Deck. I was having trouble getting the right sort of smart alek but lovable voice for the narrator. Thanks to Naomi Epel's book, I learned that John Steinbeck wrote East of Eden as if it were a letter to his two sons. The voice I wanted for the narrator was the voice I used to use in letters to an old college friend. So I began my days typing "Dear Berta" at the top of the page and pretended I was telling my old friend the story via letter. The missing voice soon followed. I also tried the "Read Aloud" tip. Listening to my own words, which Naomi Epel explains other writers do, proved extremely valuable in testing that voice and editing rough spots which I didn't catch in silent reading.
Rating: 5
Summary: Handy and useful
Comment: ... my husband heard Naomi Epel interviewed on NPR right after The Observation Deck was published. He ordered it for me as an I-love-you present, and I've used it ever since. The cards are a little ratty and dirty at the edges now from so much fingering and fiddling.
Of course, not all of the suggestions for unlocking the Writer Within are useful to a specific individual, but I found at least 75% of them to be applicable to writers of all genres, both fiction and nonfiction.
The success of The Observation Deck is proof of the adage: Writers write - because sometimes it's not so much what you write as it is the fact that you're writing at all...
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Title: THE WRITER'S BLOCK 786 Ideas to Jump-Start Your Imagination by Jason Rekulak ISBN: 0762409487 Publisher: Running Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 2001 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: Pocket Muse: Ideas and Inspirations for Writing by Monica Wood ISBN: 1582971420 Publisher: Writers Digest Books Pub. Date: March, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.99 |
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Title: Writers Dreaming: 26 Writers Talk About Their Dreams and the Creative Process by Naomi Epel ISBN: 0679741410 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 05 December, 1994 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: The Novelist's Notebook by Laurie Henry ISBN: 1884910424 Publisher: Story Pr Pub. Date: May, 2002 List Price(USD): $15.99 |
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Title: The Autobiography Box by Brian Bouldrey, Brain Bouldrey ISBN: 0811826732 Publisher: Chronicle Books Pub. Date: August, 2000 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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