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"When you are facing down a blank page (or screen), a constraint-based prompt-for example, ""you must use the words 'cloud' and 'green'"" or ""you must set the scene in a crowded grocery store""-can get your brain working in unexpected ways. In this creative writing guide, longtime teacher and novelist Alice LaPlante shares 100 original exercises that will simultaneously push you into a corner and give you the tools to write yourself out of it. LaPlante explains the purpose of each exercise-to sharpen your ear for dialogue, generate surprising images, or access intense emotions-and breaks down student examples to reveal how to achieve these goals. Whether you are looking to jumpstart new ideas or find a fresh angle on a work in progress, and whether you write fiction, creative nonfiction, or poetry, Write Yourself Out of a Corner will strengthen your imagination and your craft."

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Alice LaPlante is a novelist, editor, teacher, and the author of the best-selling writing guides The Making of a Story and Write Yourself Out of a Corner, as well as the New York Times best-selling novel Turn of Mind. She lives in Mallorca, Spain.

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