This month we at Books to Write by introduce a new blogger to our blog, Bethany Calloway. Bethany loves to write fantasy with an element of mystery. She is a high school student who studies AP English and enjoys Marching Band where she is currently Junior Drum Major.
Welcome, Bethany Calloway!
In Writing Magic,
by Gail Carson Levine author of Ella Enchanted, helps get the creative juices flowing, tears down writer’s block, and assists writers in creating stories which fly off the page.
"In Writing Magic, Newberry Honor author Gail
Carson Levine shares her secrets of great writing. She shows how you, too, can
get terrific ideas for stories, invent great beginnings and endings, write
sparkling dialogue, develop memorable characters- and much ,much more. She advises
you about what to do when you feel stuck- and how to use helpful criticism. Best
of all, she offers writing exercises that will set your imagination on fire. With
humor, honesty, and wisdom, Gail Carson Levine shows you that you, too, can
make magic with your writing."
The author eases you into writing by starting off with easy little
writing assignments then gradually gives more and more challenging writing
assignments. The great part of this book is that it helps organize writing ideas and generates possible plots. Also, the exercises have awesome
names which make you excited to write like the first exercises is A
Running Start and it ends with Exeunt Writing.
The book, has five sections, 1. Liftoff 2. Hearts and Guts 3. Plowing Through 4. Digging Deeper
5. Writing Forever, which help you start the beginning of a book and takes you to the very end. It helps you through the process of
writing a book, and shows you how to write each section of a book successfully.
This is a book about writing fiction. But it should help you
write anything from e-mails, essays, and greeting cards to love letter and
skywriting. It help you in writers blog by give you easy to do writing
exercises that unleashes you creativity.
Writing Magic is a well written non-
fiction book that helps ages 8 & up write fiction. It's great book which help people get
start writing.
