{"product_id":"doodling-for-writers-9780999429938","title":"Doodling for Writers","description":"\u003cp\u003eDrawing and doodling--in the margins, on napkins, anywhere--can contribute to your writing process and fuel your creativity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eDoodling for Writers\u003c\/i\u003e, memoirist and cartoonist Rebecca Fish Ewan combines her wit and wisdom with practical, engaging prompts and activities to illustrate how simple sketching can get you over hurdles, bring back memories, and even provide a roadmap for where your story needs to go.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFull of encouragement and anecdotes, Fish Ewan's cartoon-self--accompanied by a few sidekicks--will guide you through basics of drawing and then show you to how to apply it to your writing process through character sketches, place maps, and more.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the author-illustrator's words, This book is not about getting writers to abandon their craft so they can become artists. For one, writing is an art form, so they're already artists. For two, this book is about letting drawing enrich their writing life, not replace it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePick up this book, pick up a pencil... and erase the notion that you can't draw.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFish Ewan, Rebecca:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003ePoet\/cartoonist \u003cb\u003eRebecca Fish Ewan's\u003c\/b\u003e passion is mingling text with visual art, primarily in ink and watercolor, to tell stories of place and memory. Her hybrid-form work has appeared in After the Art, Brevity, Crab Fat, Survivor Zine, Hip Mama, Mutha, TNB, Punctuate \u0026amp; Under the Gum Tree. Her illustrations and essay, The Deepest Place on Earth, were published in the Literary Kitchen anthology, \u003ci\u003ePlaces Like Home\u003c\/i\u003e. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eA Land Between, By the Forces of Gravity: A Memoir\u003c\/i\u003e, the chapbook\u003ci\u003eWater Marks\u003c\/i\u003e, and her newest book, \u003ci\u003eDoodling for Writers\u003c\/i\u003e. Rebecca has an MFA in creative writing from ASU, where she has been a landscape design professor for 25+ years. She grew up in Berkeley, California, and lives with her family in Arizona.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Books by Hippocampus","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50915792945426,"sku":"9780999429938","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_dca04503-d119-4aa1-b234-9198e62b1417.jpg?v=1738829358","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/doodling-for-writers-9780999429938","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}