Bøker av Louise Tondeur

Fully updated for 2023, with two new chapters on productivity and circadian rhythms, the second edition of A Small Steps Guide to Time Management and Goal Setting is a no-nonsense guide to discovering your goals and making them concrete. It is ideal for goal setting for health, career, study, family, finances, travel or leisure. Written for those who want a straightforward guide to getting their dreams on track, with special sections for those who lack motivation or who never seem to have time, readers have access to the small steps method website for further tips and advice.

You can learn a lot about writing through direct observation from life, like artists do when they work on a still life or a landscape, and that's what this book is all about. It's made up of practical activities covering writing techniques like rhythm, sense of place, word pictures, character, and dialogue. Each section includes short exercises, storytelling tips, research and information gathering activities, as well as suggestions for designing your own set of powerful, tailor-made writing prompts.This book will help you to let go of judgement and self-criticism and get some words written. You'll learn to conquer your fear of the blank page, collect source material for your writing projects, and come up with new ideas time and time again."Louise is one of the most inspirational lecturers I have ever worked with" - former student.

How to Think Like a Writer is aimed at undergraduate and postgraduate Creative Writing students and their tutors. Arranged into weeks, the book contains enough material for a 2 x 10 week programme, plus additional workshop material to help students think differently about creative careers and being a writer in the world. If you are not on a course, the tools in this book will help you to establish a writing habit, especially if you need help getting over fear of the blank page.How to Think Like a Writer introduces you to a writer''s toolkit, a set of tools that you can use to generate words and connect with your creative side. These tools will help you to accept and confront your internal censor or judge and to develop a writer''s mindset.

<b>Take small steps</b>Find Time to Write is based on the small steps approach to time management. In a nutshell, you can take any task and break it down into smaller and smaller steps until it becomes manageable. You can do small things in your everyday life to help you achieve your goals. This book applies the small steps approach to the writing life. If you want to write, you don’t need a big idea, you need to find the time to turn up and do it. This book shows you how.The three week ‘Beginnings’ section will get your writing habit set up and ready to go. Next, the ‘30 Day Writing Challenge’ will supercharge your writing life.<b>Learn how to show up</b>No-one ever sits down to write a 50,000 or 100,000 word novel or stage play or screenplay or non-fiction book. All writers of long projects do this: they write and redraft 1000 words 50 times (or 100 times). Or they write 500 words 100 times (or 200 times). Could you find the time to write 1000 words sometime this week, or could you write 250 words 4 times this week? If you can, you can finish the first draft of your book or play by this time next year. You don’t need to start with an idea. You need time and space to write, and you need to show up regularly. Find Time to Write will help you to show up.