50 Ideas to Boost Your Writing (ISBN 0-9546461-4-2) is published by NAWG Publications. You can order a copy from 50 Ideas, 40 Burstall Hill, Bridlington, East Yorkshire, YO16 7GA for £6 inc. P&P. Please make cheques payable to NAWG.

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50 Ideas to Boost Your Writing is a compendium of practical tips and techniques to help your growth as a writer. It offers a range of ideas and activities that can be used both by beginners and authors of many years’ experience.

Here you will explore the processes of writing; from first inspiration (without having to wait for inspiration to strike!) through the development of characters, plots and settings to the act of composition and on to the fully realised project. All of this is underpinned by advice and guidance on establishing and sustaining a healthy and positive attitude towards the craft, which is essential for boosting creativity and getting the most out of your ideas, through to submitting work and dealing with rejections (and successes).

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‘I was delighted to see that you not only balance this most important subject of concentrating on the writer as well as the writing, but also do so in an admirable and erudite way. No serious student or hobby writer should be without this book.’ – Brian Lister, a founder member of the National Association of Writers’ Groups and creator of Biscuit Publishing.

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Stephen Bowkett has of course spent a lot of time roaming the high roads and

back alleys of his own imagination. As writers do.

 

But in this book he shows that he hasn’t just been gathering ideas for his own

work. Amazingly, he has come back with a truly priceless assortment of road

maps, street plans, signposts, landmarks, checklists and access codes – a far from

Rough Guide to that unique place within the human mind.

 

I wish I’d had such a book when I was starting. It’s true and illuminating, it’s

helpful and encouraging, and it’s fun. The introduction alone, specifying "the

Attitude", would be a godsend to those of us who sometimes do "creative writing

workshops".

 

For any would-be writer, still aspiring, Steve will be inspiring.

                                          Douglas Hill

 

(Douglas Hill was born and raised in western Canada, educated there to a BA (Hons.) in English, abandoned a postgraduate scholarship at the University of Toronto and sailed to London to be a writer. As well as publishing around 75 books he has also written journalism (articles and book reviews) and verse; briefly taught a "creative writing" class at the City Literary Institute in the 1960s; and from 1971-84 held a part-time job as literary editor of the weeklyTribune).

 

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