Writer's Block Busters: 101 Exercises to Clear the Dead Wood and Make Room for Flights of Fancy Book

Most writing books are how-to manuals for writing a play or story. Playwright Velina Hasu Houston's new book avoids instruction and instead mentors via writing exercises designed to jump-start the imagination. No matter what your creative writing genre, if you fully invest yourself in these writing exercises, chances are they will either lead you to something that carries your current work to its next phase or take you to entirely new places, providing you with unexpected, fresh material.

Writers, teachers, and actors can benefit from this new book from a twenty-year mentor of playwrights. It can help you wake up your muses, enrich your sensory apparatus, spark a new point of departure for a character or idea, and-clear the deadwood and make room for flights of fancy!

Midwest Book Review

Sooner or later, every author will encounter the dreaded condition called 'writer's block'. This is when no ideas occur to the writer who may well sit and stair at a blank page in the typewriter or a blinking curser on the computer screen for hours, days, weeks, and longer. For just such inevitable occasions, and drawing upon her many years of experience and expertise writing more than 30 plays (including fourteen of which were commissioned assignments complete with deadlines), Velina Hasu Houston has compiled a series of 'user friendly' and real-world productive activities and actions in "Writer's Block Busters: 101 Exercises To Clear The Deadwood And Make Room For Flights Of Fancy". Each exercise occupied a single page and is succinctly presented in one paragraph. Occasionally enhanced with quotable quotes, each exercise is designed to prompt the blocked writer to start composing on the spot. Here's an illustrative example: Homecoming: Character A has suffered torture, enslavement, insults, and disrespect in order to return to the side of a loved one. He or she returns home only to find that his or her loved one is gone. Place that sense of rupture and loss in your protagonist. Write. "Writer's Block Busters" should be on the ready reference shelf of every aspiring or seasoned author -- because no matter how gifted or inspired you may be in the pursuit of your craft, sooner or later that dreaded condition known as 'writer's block' will strike. That's when you will reach for your copy of "Writer's Block Busters" and be glad you have it handy!