Böcker av Alice LaPlante

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, long-time 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.

A smart, haunting tale of psychological suspense from the award-winning New York Times bestselling author of Turn of Mind.

Jennifer White can't remember whether she murdered her best friendDr Jennifer White, a once brilliant surgeon, is slowly losing her mind. Amanda, her best friend, is found stabbed to death.