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The Burnt Notebook
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Publisher's Summary
Inspirational hacks to transform expand your imagination and your creative writing.
Writer and podcaster Ross Sutherland offers you a suite of writing techniques to get your creative juices flowing. This series is packed with tips gleaned from literature’s finest writers, but don’t worry - Ross isn’t about to ask you to write a dense novel or an academic text. Through a series of playful exercises he’s encouraging you to have fun, to experiment, to play and to fall in love with the written word.
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- Anonymous User
- 10-02-2020
what a racket.
I couldn't listen through horrible sound art accompaniment. Reversing trucks... car alarms.. ping pong anyone?
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- Mr. P. J. Glynn
- 07-01-2020
An Extremely Helpful Series!
I found this to be an amazingly helpful and well produced series and would highly recommend it to anyone who wants to try creative writing!
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- Olgabootsanova
- 15-01-2020
Physically painful background music
I really wanted to be able to love this, but no matter how I tinkered with the settings the background noises/music were sudden, sharp, jarring and incredibly distracting. Please, please remaster this without the odd music! I'm not exaggerating, it is physically painful to my ears. I couldn't listen past 4 minutes.
When I jumped ahead the background music wasn't as bad but was weird and wobbly and made me feel a bit woozy and odd. Maybe it is because I occasionally get migraines and it wouldn't do this to someone else, but I really thing a remastering should be considered.
I really want to love this!
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- Aparna
- 22-01-2020
music really?
why background music .Not necessary at all . did not want to continue to listen
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- miss o wilson
- 21-01-2020
Struggled to finish
I struggled to finish this as all the sound effects and background music were really distracting and pointless.
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- David
- 31-01-2020
Oh God How Annoying
This could be a good read, but for me the accompanying background music was SO annoying that I could not continue listening.
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- Stevie Bach
- 18-01-2020
Great writing ideas
Ross Sutherland offers meandering interesting literary journeys before offering fascinating useful exercises. Great listening.
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- josh McCabe
- 16-01-2020
Just awesome!
I found this great to get my creative mind kickstarted when I couldn't think if anything. Some of the exercises he talks about help me come up with the strangest ideas to write about. I'd definitely recommend listening to this, even if you're a proper professional writer or just starting out.
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- blacktormaline
- 15-01-2020
Great show, ruined by sound effects
The infuriating sound design ruins what is otherwise a truly engaging and insightful show about writing.
Ross has a kind and disarming manner about him and that is the only reason that I toughed it out through the whole series.
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- mark frendo
- 22-02-2020
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Very good, however the background music is sometimes to high in the mix and a bit unpleasant.
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- Clare D
- 17-02-2020
Unbearable.
Sorry, this might be brilliant for all I know, but the jarring background noise meant I couldn't bear to listen to it. My bad, as I expect the narrator would say.