A Whole Lot of Inspiration (in a Little Bit of Space!)
The Pocket Muse is your key to finding inspiration when and where you want it. With hundreds of thought-provoking prompts, exercises and illustrations, you’ll immediately:
Get started writingOvercome writer’s blockDevelop a writing habitThink more creativelyMaster style, revision and other elements of the craft
The rich variety of exercises will help you to create stories, focus on a single aspect of your writing, and encourage you to think about how and why you write in new and surprising ways.
A truly unique book, The Pocket Muse is fun and effective. It will teach you, cheer you and inspire you to write as never before.
A nudge in the right direction A nice little book – it won’t exactly fit in your pocket, but it’s small enough to be tucked away in a laptop case. It has the usual ‘suggestions for writing,’ any one of which generally puts the lid on a grownup writer’s imagination, especially if one is actually engaged in writing something. However,they are not intrusive, and the book also has a lot of practical, cheerful advice about the problems of the writing life: time, place, revision,style and so forth. I particularly liked ‘you have…
A great gift book This is a wonderful gift book for the writer in your life. Inside the pages, you’ll find photographs– some cute, some beautiful– and tidbits of advice about writing and prompts to spark your creativity.Â
Shuffling the Deck of Creativity “The Pocket Muse”, despite its name, is not really small enough to fit in your pocket (although it’ll easily fit into your backpack, purse, or bag). It has an odd black-and-olive color scheme that I actually came to love after a while. Black and white photos are scattered throughout, and they’re quite well reproduced. Suggestions are presented sideways, right-side-up, at an angle, on (reproduced) tacked-up notes, luggage tags, and index cards.Â