Alice LaPlante
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English
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Never one to conform, Anna always had trouble fitting in. Earnest and willful, she quickly learned, as a young girl, how to hide her quirks from her parents and friends. But at sixteen, a sudden melancholia takes hold of her life. Then the Goldschmidt's move in next door. The new neighbors are active members of a religious cult, and Anna is awestruck by both their son, Lars, and their fervent violent prophecies for the Tribulation at the End of Days....
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English
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100 imagination-stretching writing exercises inspired by the idea of creative constraints, from the author of The Making of a Story.
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, longtime teacher and novelist Alice LaPlante...