BOOK REVIEW - BUILDING A WRITING PRACTICE BY SONA GROVER

 

Sona Grover could not have said it better when she introduced her book titled ‘Building a Writing Practice’ to her readers.

“Writing is a craft that gets better when you do it again and again and focus on things you must improve. Like a muscle, it can be built. And to train your writing muscles you have to give them a range of motion. “

This book, written during the #Blogchatter A2Z Challenge, should be read by all writers, aspiring and otherwise. According to the author, writing is a habit that needs to be pursued regularly. Research is vital but putting it down in writing is obviously even more so. She mentions writer’s block as a phase which can be addressed through self-care and refilling.

Keeping a blog is one way to keep ahead of one’s ideas, and the author encourages one to maintain a content calendar that helps to play around with creative content. Planning often works wonders and aids in the flow.

There are some wonderful exercises to flex one’s writing muscles. The author puts them down in a succinct manner, one after the other, in small doses. What is fascinating is that she takes her own advice seriously, putting forth her thoughts in little capsules that make them easier to follow. She stresses on the fact that making a connection between unrelated things is what leads to creativity in writing.

Descriptions are often useful in training the mind to observe details that make all the difference to the readers, and action is even more so, is what the book conveys. There is also a word of caution here, though. Brevity is the soul of wit, as the Bard said, and it is better not to let one’s descriptions get too florid. Creating characters is also a complex process, albeit an intriguing one.

 One point that appealed to me greatly was the idea of keeping a dedicated notebook to write down ideas that could help in writing.  Another idea I absolutely loved was the glass jar idea, but I will let the readers find out about that themselves.

There are so many writing exercises given in this book, each one of them doable and creative in their own way.

Apart from the above, the author also lays out different forms of writing that could help writers to create stories with a tiny bit of imagination. The world gives out ample opportunities to write, and it is up to every writer to find and use them.

There is no doubt that this little book is a blueprint for all those who want their imaginations to be prodded into writing. I would recommend it to students as well because a good command over the language, and the facility to use it in the best way possible, can enhance their academic and extra-academic performance without doubt.

The book link is as follows:

https://www.theblogchatter.com/download/building-a-writing-practice

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