Writer Emergency Pack
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- 26 illustrated Idea cards
- 26 Detail cards with helpful suggestions and specific tips to try
- Instructions for individual and class use
- "Your portable tool for story resuscitation (or simply creativity rejuvenation)." - Writer's Digest
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Product information
Product Dimensions | 3.6 x 2.5 x 0.6 inches |
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Item Weight | 2.4 ounces |
Country of Origin | USA |
ASIN | B00R6ZLIOY |
Item model number | 43211-3698 |
Manufacturer recommended age | 8 years and up |
Customer Reviews |
4.5 out of 5 stars |
Is Discontinued By Manufacturer | No |
Manufacturer | Quote-Unquote LLC |
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When your story gets stuck, Writer Emergency Pack has the tools you need. Fix plot holes. Spice up stock characters. Rethink your themes. Writer Emergency Pack contains 26 illustrated cards, each featuring a different idea for getting unstuck. The notion of using cards to help you write isn't new. Writers have long used tarot cards, looking for meaning in the illustrations, or decks like Oblique Strategies, with its koan-like prompts ("Repetition is a form of change"). The ideas in Writer Emergency Pack are designed to be less abstract, and more immediately useful. They're specifically tailored to people writing fiction, from novels to scripts, poems to plays. The cards focus on story, character, and conflict. Writer Emergency Pack gives you the questions that lead to great answers.
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Customers find the ideas in the deck of cards inspiring and thought-provoking. They also say the quality is wonderful and the design is eye-catching. Customers also say it's a fun and useful item to have. They say it makes a terrific gift for aspiring writers. Customers like the literary aspects, and resource. However, some customers have issues with the size.
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Customers find the ideas in the deck inspiring, thought-provoking, and wonderful. They say the deck helps them think about scenes, characters, and conflict in a different way. Customers also say the ideas are a clever starting point and a good learning tool. They enjoy the symbolism in the cards as well as the art and graphic design style. Overall, customers say the product is a great way to get the creative juices flowing.
"...In any case, I enjoy the symbolism in the deck as well as the art and graphic design style...." Read more
"...imagination and detail in the suggestions, but overall are a clever starting point, or push when one becomes creatively blocked...." Read more
"...It’s a little small but it’s really nice and has a lot of great ideas to get out a writers block." Read more
"In general: wonderful set, beautiful, cute and fun. Can be thought-provoking especially if you REALLY try and figure out HOW the situation can apply..." Read more
Customers are happy with the quality of the cards. They say it's a wonderful set, beautiful, cute, and fun. Some customers also mention that the cards are different but good.
"...It’s a little small but it’s really nice and has a lot of great ideas to get out a writers block." Read more
"In general: wonderful set, beautiful, cute and fun...." Read more
"These cards are great and handy to keep by your work station. They're not only fun but contain relevant writing messages/hints on every card." Read more
"These are nice, but a lot smaller then I thought...." Read more
Customers like the design of the toy and game. They mention it's eye-catching, well-designed, and conversation-inducing.
"...any case, I enjoy the symbolism in the deck as well as the art and graphic design style...." Read more
"A fun and well designed tactile resource that makes you feel like you always have a trick up your sleeve...." Read more
"These cards are cute, petite, and does what it says it will....helps you write!..." Read more
"...This design unfortunately makes the use cumbersome - every time you draw a card at random, you then have to shuffle through the other half-deck to..." Read more
Customers find the toy fun and useful.
"...I’m sure it’s fun and helpful as a writer’s tool as well." Read more
"A fun and well designed tactile resource that makes you feel like you always have a trick up your sleeve...." Read more
"In general: wonderful set, beautiful, cute and fun...." Read more
"...They're not only fun but contain relevant writing messages/hints on every card." Read more
Customers say the gift is a great idea for aspiring writers and a good gift for teens who like to write creatively. They also say it's a cute idea for writer friends.
"...Also, they make a terrific gift that encourages and validates aspiring writers." Read more
"...Super cute gift for the writer in your life though. My brother really liked it, even if it didn't help, it's cute to have...." Read more
"...A GREAT gift for teens who like to write creatively! I bought them as a gift for my creative writing class as part of a writers survival pack!" Read more
"It makes a great gift for writers and helps a writer when they are stuck" Read more
Customers find the literary aspects of the book great and helpful as a writer's tool. They say it's a novel way to approach writing and some of the difficulties involved. Readers also say it helps aspiring writers break through writer' block and encourages them to write.
"...I’m sure it’s fun and helpful as a writer’s tool as well." Read more
"Novel way to approach writing and some of the difficulties involved." Read more
"...Also, they make a terrific gift that encourages and validates aspiring writers." Read more
"It makes a great gift for writers and helps a writer when they are stuck" Read more
Customers find the resource helpful, great, and useful. They also say it's handy and great for helping them get out of trouble.
"...We then each drew a card and tried the suggestion. Fun and helpful." Read more
"Excellent and amazingly useful tool." Read more
"Great resource, lots of fun." Read more
"Great, handy little truths..." Read more
Customers are dissatisfied with the size of the deck of cards. They mention that it's smaller than expected, and the text and cards really should be bigger. Some mention that the print is small, and that they need a magnifying glass to read it.
"Thought this as a gift for a friend who writes. It’s a little small but it’s really nice and has a lot of great ideas to get out a writers block." Read more
"These cards are cute, petite, and does what it says it will....helps you write!..." Read more
"...job done so I gave it 4 stars but not 5 because the text and cards really should be bigger so they can be more user friendly...." Read more
"...they cost I thought they would be larger, but these are SMALL like a normal deck of cards. I didn't catch that on the listing. Cute though." Read more
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The great thing about The Writer’s Emergency Pack is that it takes your mind off of your writer’s block and gets your mind thinking about other scenarios. Secondly, the instructions on how to use the cards are suuuuuper simple. While thinking about the problem it prompts you to pick an illustrated idea card at random and then it’s matching detail card. The detail card has information on both the front and back. This gives the writer sort of a writing prompt to get their mind flowing and thinking outside the box.
For the record, this is my second day using it and I find it relatively useful. I’m a novice novel writer and am part of a larger novel writing group in SoCal.
Reviewed in the United States on August 24, 2020
The great thing about The Writer’s Emergency Pack is that it takes your mind off of your writer’s block and gets your mind thinking about other scenarios. Secondly, the instructions on how to use the cards are suuuuuper simple. While thinking about the problem it prompts you to pick an illustrated idea card at random and then it’s matching detail card. The detail card has information on both the front and back. This gives the writer sort of a writing prompt to get their mind flowing and thinking outside the box.
For the record, this is my second day using it and I find it relatively useful. I’m a novice novel writer and am part of a larger novel writing group in SoCal.
However, like others have said, it was a sad surprise to realize each concept takes up two cards, so there really are half a deck full of prompts, padded out to double their size.
This design unfortunately makes the use cumbersome - every time you draw a card at random, you then have to shuffle through the other half-deck to find its mate.
It's also, unfortunately, hard to feel slighted by 50%. 52 cards should be 52 cards (give or take), not 26 cards padded out to take up two each. I genuinely hope the writer will reconsider the design - each card with something visual on one side, text on the other, perhaps - for a second edition.
I do wish that the idea cards were doublesided though to add more umph to the pack. Maybe the creators will make a second edition and do that for me...