Winning Words: a Writers' Helper and Commonplace Book to Stimulate Imagination

Your writer?s notebook can electrify your writing. But if you have not accumulated ?commonplace books? over forty years, this one, from a writer with over 90 publications, may help. It offers about 5,000 entries, divided into categories valuable to writers. This offers ?the best bits? of four decades of a writer?s notebooks. Other sources such as the Google global zeitgeist 2013 were also used. The result is 55 categories useful to writers (the author has special skill in such analysis). It is a modern-day ?cabinet of curiosities? that can add fire to any writing. This cornucopia is fresh. Entries offer a delightful browse: a thrilling cocktail including thought-provoking gems. Examples are: ?G?day.? ?gloopy? ?Here be dragons.? ?She be bitch woman.? ?In the mist, the sky wept.? ?solid, stocky, a bruiser ? but rich.? ?Your wedding ring and you are stardust.? ?Just in case, she put on her new black knickers.? ?All shall be well ? and all manner of thing shall be well.? A bonus is advice especially for writers aspiring to their first publication. But experienced authors could also benefit. Practical tips abound. Topics include finding time and ideas, non-fiction articles and books, short stories, novels and poetry.