Cincinnati - Ohio, In the world of writing, how to find ideas and explore them
to become interesting topics, it is very important. Especially for the
beginning-aspiring writers, they are always wondering how to get the
ideas. That question is very important
and essential because how can we produce one writing if we don't have ideas or
material to be written? Young writers often stop writing or have stagnation
because they don't know what to write, have no ideas, no
inspiration, and a thousand-one other reasons that make them not to write.
The book of
Exploring My Ideas written by
Fida Abbott is a
wonderful response to that situation. This book will guide the young writers to
resolve that problem.
Through its creative and informative presentation of this book,
Fida presents ten short stories as the examples of a writing which ideas have been
developed from simple daily events.
Fida presents 15 sources of ideas that
writers can use and explore them. The writers are free to choose which source
they might use. Based on the ten short stories she has presented; the writer’s
personal experiences seem to be good source of ideas because they have strong
appeal and great impetus for writers to accomplish their writings. The writer’s
personal experiences contain elements that involve both writer’s emotional and
intellectual—which will enrich her writings more lively and powerful.
To add the personal experiences, the writers need to conduct
researches to provide accurate data or logic for the story. This is important
because writers are intellectually responsible for educating their readers by
presenting a good and trusty writing.
One of the main strengths of this book is how
Fida wrote her
stories with a smooth, straightforward, and storytelling way. Once we read one
of the stories, we will be excited and look forward to continuing reading the
next story. We will be curious to know what kind of stories she will convey
next. The themes are varied, ranging from mystery, relationships in a family or
a workplace, mental health problem, horror, spiritual problems, etc.
In addition to providing technique how to explore ideas,
Fida provides ten guides to plot a short story. This methodology explains about
how to put the idea into a short story. It includes introduction of the main
character, story conflict, how the main character solves the problems, and how
the story will end with a satisfying way. There are also some examples on how
to apply that technique which is taken from one of the stories in the book.
This book is more valuable as there are some encouragements to the readers on
how to improve their writings and how to submit their stories for profit.
I strongly recommend this book to beginning-aspiring writers
as their helpful handbook. This book also helps us not to be afraid to write
and not to be doubtful of our ideas. No matter how simple the ideas that arise
in our minds, it is valuable, and we need to appreciate it. If we immediately
take steps to work on it, it will become an interesting and enjoyable story to
read.(*)
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Yunita (D. Harahap) Phillips is the author of COKI—a series of children books with a young carrier pigeon as the main character. She
attended some international publishers and writers’ institutions, held by
Highlights for Children Foundation in Pennsylvania,
Cook Communication MinistriesInternational in Colorado, and
Media Associate International in Illionis. In
the past, she worked at
YK. Bina Kasih publishing house, Jakarta, Indonesia,
for 18 years. Now she resides in Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.A., working at home as a
writer, a translator, and one of the instructors at Online Writing Course,
Pelatihan Menulis Online HOKI (PMOH)***
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