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Opening the Creativity Diamond: The writer's guide to creative thinking Kindle Edition

by Tony Jones (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.7 4.7 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
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A guide to creativity for writers and anyone else who needs help with their problem solving. This book focusses on the exploration of ideas and discusses how different personality types may prefer different tools for thinking. It isn't simply a long list of tools but a practical set of varied techniques along with some relevant examples for writers as to how to use these.
Drawn from years of experience in training this book comes as close as it can to providing the experience in the classroom to the reader.
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Do you ever struggle with writer's block, or feel like your brain is stuck in a rut, recycling the same old tropes? Do you wish you knew some time-tested techniques to nudge your creative mind in new directions? Do you have trouble establishing (or maintaining) a consistently productive writing schedule? If so, I have something that may help.I recently read the review copy of Opening the Creativity Diamond: The writer's guide to creative thinking by Tony Jones, which is a book designed to help writers unleash their potential. Tony Jones is a fellow indie author, blogger, and Google Plusser with "years of experience as a trainer of creative thinking tools." In his book, Mr. Jones reveals proven ways to 'jump-start' your brain, including detailed examples, puzzles, and brain teasers.Mr. Jones explains that "I have tailored a diverse set of techniques for writers. The book contains many examples of the ideas in action along with a few exercises for the reader. There is even a chapter on writer's block and how to work through it."The book begins by explaining what the Creativity Diamond is, and how a writer can benefit from understanding it, while Chapter Two explores the Myers Briggs personality traits, and how you can understand your own traits and learn how they influence your creativity. From this foundation, Opening the Creativity Diamond goes on to provide creativity-generating techniques like brainstorming, anchoring, random stimulus, role-storming, and more. In general, the book defines a technique, explains how to use it, describes why it works, and offers tips for implementation.A favorite example of mine is The Six Questions (or 5Ws and 1H): Who, What, Where, When, Why and How? Mr. Jones describes how you can use these prompts to make sure your writing is creatively providing your reader with the necessary information. Even if you don't answer all six questions in your scene, mentally addressing each will help you craft a coherent and robust narrative, and possibly provide you with fresh ideas you may have overlooked by not considering the 5Ws and 1H.Although I've read many guides on the various components of writing, and a couple books on personality traits, I've not read a book combining the two into a creativity guide. I found found Opening the Creativity Diamond to be a short (50 pages), fun, educational read, and recommend it to any author searching for ways to maximize their creative potential.CM Skeira Author of the Oxbow Kingdom Trilogy

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00O53B200
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ (October 2, 2014)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ October 2, 2014
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 224 KB
  • Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 63 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.7 4.7 out of 5 stars 2 ratings

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Tony Jones has dined with royalty, supped Slings in Singapore and been taught by several Nobel Prize winners (though he could have paid more attention!) He is a writer and blogger based in the early 21st Century.

An award winning author, he was Audio Drama Editor for Starburst Magazine, now occasionally reviews for CultBox. He wrote the Big Finish Companion Chronicles: Tactics of Defeat, Short Trips Doctor Who story Rulebook and the Doctor Who Subscriber Short Trips stories Helmstone and Tuesday. He also contributed a short story to the collection A Treasury of Brenda and Effie (thanks Paul Magrs and all at Obverse Books!) and contributed stories the Castle of Horror 4 & 5 collections.

He writes about creativity and produces the kind of science fiction and fantasy he liked to read in the 1970s. He released a Bradbury style psychological drama set on Mars called Jezero Station. He followed this with a set of short stories for Halloween — Recollections of Fear! This has spawned Recollections of Fear 2, and a third title — The Oxbridge Files. More to come!

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4.7 out of 5 stars
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C. Skiera
4.0 out of 5 stars Creativity Techniques for Writers
Reviewed in the United States on January 24, 2015
Opening the Creativity Diamond: The writer's guide to creative thinking by Tony Jones, is a book designed to help writers unleash their creativity. In his book, Mr. Jones reveals proven ways to 'jump-start' your brain, including detailed examples, puzzles, and brain teasers.

The book begins by explaining what the Creativity Diamond is, and how a writer can benefit from understanding it, while Chapter Two explores the Myers Briggs personality traits, and how you can understand your own traits and learn how they influence your creativity. From this foundation, Opening the Creativity Diamond goes on to provide creativity-generating techniques like brainstorming, anchoring, random stimulus, role-storming, and more. In general, the book defines a technique, explains how to use it, describes why it works, and offers tips for implementation.

A favorite example of mine is The Six Questions (or 5Ws and 1H): Who, What, Where, When, Why and How? Mr. Jones describes how you can use these prompts to make sure your writing is creatively providing your reader with the necessary information. Even if you don't answer all six questions in your scene, mentally addressing each will help you craft a coherent and robust narrative, and possibly provide you with fresh ideas you may have overlooked by not considering the 5Ws and 1H.

Although I've read many guides on the various components of writing, and a couple books on personality traits, I've not read a book combining the two into a creativity guide. I found found Opening the Creativity Diamond to be a short (50 pages), fun, educational read, and recommend it to any author searching for ways to maximize their creative potential.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A book about creativity that's actually for creative people
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 26, 2022
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I was looking for ages for a book about creative techniques that wasn't aimed at business people in teams and it was proving almost impossible to find until I stumbled across this gem.
It's aimed squarely at writers, and writers working alone at that (so none of this "group brainstorming session" stuff that other books are filled with).
It's short, but has lots of good techniques and good examples of how to use them, without getting all TedTalky about it.
In short, I'm delighted to have come across this book and would recommend it to any writer or aspiring writer.
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