Jump Start Your Writing Author:Mary Hubley Jump Start Your Writing gives writers a creative nudge. It helps dormant muses wake up and run across the page screaming with passion. This book is packed with hundreds of story sparkers, creativity boosts, and fast writing tips. It reveals secrets that professional writers know well, like conceiving realistic characters, injecting conflict and ... more »emotion, and exploring storyline, action verbs, and active voice. The book promotes a sense of humor, asking writers to explore their existence as bubble gum or a cartoon character, to write about what happens when an apple falls in love with a pencil, and to remember their best childhood friend. It also encourages injecting conflict into stories with murder, natural disaster, and bad situations that are destined to become worse. This book defies writers block with techniques to use when struggling for new topics. In the end, writers will emerge with new character ideas, twists they never before imagined, and a new energy encouraging them to create more.« less