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MEDIA ROOM
Welcome to Donna Sundblad's Media Room
Pumping Your Muse Blurb
Word Count 25 Blurb
World-building dills for the seasoned author suffering from writer's block or fledgling writer looking for inspiration and guidance, following these contiguous exercises generates a first draft.
Word Count 50 Blurb
Each chapter of Pumping Your Muse extracts elements from the real world to construct believable fictional realms. Fresh scenes are turned upside down and propelled into un-chartered territories where they meld into a complete storyline. Whether suffering from writer's block or a fledgling writer looking for guidance, this book is for you.
Word Count 100 Blurb
Drive your imagination through a series of world-building drills with Pumping Your Muse. Each chapter extracts elements from the real world and uses them to construct a believable fictional realm while giving birth to naturally emerging characters. This innovative process takes fresh scenes, turns them upside down and propels fresh ideas into new un-chartered territories where thought processes depart from the obvious. Following the examples in this book, writers newly conceived scenes meld into a storyline complete with a beginning, middle and end. Whether you're a seasoned author suffering from writer's block or a fledgling writer looking for inspiration and guidance, this book is for you.
Word Count 200 Blurb
Each chapter of Pumping Your Muse extracts elements from the real world to construct believable fictional realms. Fresh scenes are turned upside down and propelled into un-chartered territories where they meld into a complete storyline. Whether you suffer from writer's block or are a fledgling writer looking for guidance, this book is for you.
- Attention to Detail: Real World details flood our senses on a subconscious level. Attention to Detail exercises hone the writer's skill to furnish detailed information without falling prey to overly descriptive terms.
- Flip Side: No matter how bizarre or mundane the story, a writer's thoughts follow a sequence--a thread of logic. Flip Side exercises force the writer from that path of logic to wander in another direction to explore new concepts.
- Reconstitute Your World: These exercises take aspects of 'real world' places and happenings, blend them with fictional ingredients and transform them into believable realms and scenarios complete with flora and fauna.
- Mapping and Tracking: Applying these principles teaches organizational skills from the genesis to the last detail of your world, including characters and their belongings. Mapping and Tracking develops logistical smoothness and provides a way to track objects for continuity.