Pen on Fire

In her years of teaching, Barbara DeMarco-Barrett has found aspiring writers blocked not by fear of the blank page but by the lack of time. Finding even an hour--much less a day--free of work, children, or chores can seem impossible.But you don't need an hour. Start looking for just fifteen minutes a day--minutes spent stalled in traffic, waiting for water to boil, stuck on hold--and DeMarco-Barrett will help you turn them into productive sessions that get and keep your creativity...
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In her years of teaching, Barbara DeMarco-Barrett has found aspiring writers blocked not by fear of the blank page but by the lack of time. Finding even an hour--much less a day--free of work, children, or chores can seem impossible.But you don't need an hour. Start looking for just fifteen minutes a day--minutes spent stalled in traffic, waiting for water to boil, stuck on hold--and DeMarco-Barrett will help you turn them into productive sessions that get and keep your creativity flowing. In short, inspiring chapters, she offers classroom-tested exercises and innovative techniques for generating ideas, as well as advice from well-known authors. Give her fifteen minutes. She'll ignite your pen and help you become the writer you have always wanted to be.