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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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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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4.5 out of 5 stars
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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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13 customers mention13 positive0 negative

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

12 customers mention12 positive0 negative

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

11 customers mention8 positive3 negative

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

10 customers mention10 positive0 negative

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

9 customers mention9 positive0 negative

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

8 customers mention8 positive0 negative

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

5 customers mention5 positive0 negative

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

11 customers mention3 positive8 negative

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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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 to a current work. Ask the right questions!CAUTION: Bought this as a gift for myself after reaching a goal during NaNoWriMo in 22. I have used the cards a few times but didn't want to look through them all, wanting to leave the imagery and words as fresh as possible. Today I pulled a few and found them stained with junk. Must have been a return that wasn't checked by Amazon. Cards cleaned well, but the oil from whatever it was stained the front of one card and the back of the other. Wish I could rate the creators and Amazon separately, but I cannot, hence the 4 stars instead of five.Would buy another product from Writer Emergency without question.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Another cure for writer’s block!
Reviewed in the United States on August 24, 2020
I’ll be honest, I’ve had writer’s block for a few days and was really at the mercy of trying something new to break the mold. During my search, I came across this since the Story Forge cards that were recommended to me weren’t on Amazon. I had to order it through the company website. Regardless, this came in just in time.

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.
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