This book is a writing guide by the famous detective novel master Lawrence Block. It is a summary of his experience and is adapted from the "Writing for Life" training class founded by Block in the 1980s. It is a practical psychological guidance and motivational guide for writing. This book does not talk about specific writing techniques, nor does it teach specific issues such as how to build a structure. Instead, it uses several practical psychological exercises to prepare for writing, so that you can have enough courage to deal with the psychological problems and negative emotions that arise in writing, so that writers can no longer feel inferior, stop procrastinating, and find a way to open up their imagination and inspiration. The language of this book is humorous and lively: each chapter is actually a thematic essay that solves the psychological problems of writing. It is an excellent opportunity to appreciate the author's humorous writing style. You can also regard this book as a one-day novel training course held by Bullock for yourself. Follow the guidance and practice to continuously improve your writing "aura".
Reader comments
This book is not only a writing class, but also a psychology class. While the author teaches how to write, he also teaches us how to eliminate psychological barriers and deal with difficulties and challenges in life. What is more impressive is the self-affirmation training. Our brains are often occupied by negative thoughts, which makes it impossible to achieve anything. We can defeat negative thoughts by repeatedly writing self-affirmations. Ideas, establish positive psychological suggestions, and believe in self-affirmation from the depths of your soul. Then your attitudes, thoughts, and behaviors will be inspired and move in its direction, eventually achieving the result of self-affirmation. In addition, the automatic writing and experience bank methods mentioned in the book are quite practical. If you want to engage in writing, you can try it.
For beginners, writing is a good psychological training to overcome fear, build confidence, and overcome negative self-consciousness. But it is really not easy to write automatically and freely anytime and anywhere, and it is even harder to insist on taking time to consciously train yourself in this way. His method is advisable, but the difficulty lies in persistence. This is also my negative subconscious thought and is not advisable. [Cover face]
This book is like a caring writing tutor. It does not provide dogmatic technical guidance, but uses interesting psychological training to help you overcome writing obstacles. I especially like the humorous writing style in the book, which is as easy as chatting with friends. Bullock made me understand that writing is not only a skill, but also an attitude. I want to follow his guidance and improve my writing "aura"!
Yes, metaphysics and psychological implications, yes.
Highly recommended, it is very helpful not only for writing but also for dealing with people.
This book is not only a writing class, but also a psychology class. While the author teaches how to write, he also teaches us how to eliminate psychological barriers and deal with difficulties and challenges in life. What is more impressive is the self-affirmation training. Our brains are often occupied by negative thoughts, which makes it impossible to achieve anything. We can defeat negative thoughts by repeatedly writing self-affirmations. Ideas, establish positive psychological suggestions, and believe in self-affirmation from the depths of your soul. Then your attitudes, thoughts, and behaviors will be inspired and move in its direction, eventually achieving the result of self-affirmation. In addition, the automatic writing and experience bank methods mentioned in the book are quite practical. If you want to engage in writing, you can try it.
For beginners, writing is a good psychological training to overcome fear, build confidence, and overcome negative self-consciousness. But it is really not easy to write automatically and freely anytime and anywhere, and it is even harder to insist on taking time to consciously train yourself in this way. His method is advisable, but the difficulty lies in persistence. This is also my negative subconscious thought and is not advisable. [Cover face]
This book is like a caring writing tutor. It does not provide dogmatic technical guidance, but uses interesting psychological training to help you overcome writing obstacles. I especially like the humorous writing style in the book, which is as easy as chatting with friends. Bullock made me understand that writing is not only a skill, but also an attitude. I want to follow his guidance and improve my writing "aura"!
Yes, metaphysics and psychological implications, yes.
Highly recommended, it is very helpful not only for writing but also for dealing with people.