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The Fastest Way to Get Ideas: 4,400 Essential What Ifs for Writers Kindle Edition

by Dave Haslett (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.2 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
Instant ideas and inspiration for novels, short stories, screenplays, articles, characters, plots, settings and more!

What Ifs are one of the fastest and easiest ways to generate ideas for things to write about - even on days when your brain won't work.

This book gives you an endless supply of unique ideas for fascinating and memorable stories, characters, locations, newspaper and magazine articles, and much more - all of which will leave your readers thinking, "How on earth did you ever think of that?"

Scan your eyes down any page, and within seconds all sorts of possibilities should begin to emerge. If you already have a theme or subject in mind, turn to the list of categories at the front – there are 150 of them listed in alphabetical order, and you can jump straight to the one you want.

Once you have your starting point, use more What Ifs to quickly add additional characters, personality traits, background details, and plot twists that really make your story stand out.

If 4,400 What Ifs aren't enough, don't worry, because you will also learn how to adapt them into an unlimited number of variations that are unique to you.

"A goldmine of stories" -- Geoff Nelder (award-winning writer of thrillers, fantasy and science fiction)
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B008600S12
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ ideas4writers
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  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ May 24, 2012
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 452 KB
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Dave Haslett

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Dave Haslett lives in Devon, England, and is the founder and Creative and Technical Director of ideas4writers - the ideas and inspiration website (www.ideas4writers.com) - which he established in 2002.

His books include The Fastest Way to Write Your Book, The Fastest Way to Get Ideas, How to Win Short Story Competitions (co-written with Geoff Nelder), and the annual The Date-A-Base Book series which each list thousands of newsworthy historical anniversaries (months or years in advance) for you to write about (and make money from!)

His 35 collections of ideas for writers are available on Kindle (and also as PDFs from ideas4writers.com).

Although primarily a non-fiction writer, Dave is also the author of several novels, which he writes under a different name.

He has a postgraduate degree in computing and is a member of Mensa. He won a poetry award at the age of 7 and wrote and illustrated his first book (an encyclopaedia of freshwater tropical fish) at the age of 13.

When time allows, Dave is also a reasonably good artist and a composer of electronic music, and enjoys going on really long walks with his partner, Lorraine.

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  • Ronald Konklewski
    3.0 out of 5 stars story Prompts
    Reviewed in the United States on April 5, 2013
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    Intriguing, but in the end the final story will be up the the writer; no one can create totally for you.
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  • Ms. D. L. Bateson
    5.0 out of 5 stars The fastest way to get ideas
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 29, 2013
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    I have written many stories using ideas from the book, you never run out of story ideas. I have enjoyed using the ideas from the book. I recommend that all writers no matter what they write whether story, plays, comedy or poems should have this book on their bookcase
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