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Writing Starters wants to open your mind and let your writing out! These 52 starters are organized by theme: Memories, Experiences, Opinions, and About You. Allow them to stimulate and challenge your little gray cells. Take time. Savor the process of getting to know yourself better as you explore your imagination and recollections of people, places, and things you have experienced. These will be a part of your writing, whether you create memoir, fiction, or even nonfiction. Here are a few starters to get you started: - Write a letter to your favorite teacher. - Describe the hero of that novel you've always wanted to write. - It was a dark and stormy night. Eek! Details. - Who would you like to have dinner with? - Write a poem to the love of your life. - What do you imagine life was like for your great-grandparents? - Are you creative? - And 45 more.

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Mike McCandless is the author of Writing Starters: Appetizers for Your Brain. He is the founder and publisher of Touchwood Press. He has worked in and around book publishing since the mid-1970s, first doing research leading to publisher mergers and acquisitions. Then he learned about how books are made as the production coordinator for one of America's largest textbook publishers. Later, while a marketing executive for technology companies and international NGOs, he founded publishing business units and did his first self-publishing, starting in the 1990s. He has a certificate from the Stanford Professional Publishing program. Mike developed the Publish-It-Yourself Workshop to help adult education students transform their writing into books and founded Touchwood Press to coach writers and provide publishing services using digital tools and print-on-demand technology. Writing Starters, Volumes 1-4 is all about encouraging writers to complete their first book or experienced writers with their next inspirations. Mike can be reached at publisher@touchwoodpress.com.

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