Not only a book for people who run workshops, but also for those who haven't the time to attend them. The 51 exercises are ideal warm-ups to get you into the mood for writing, and you can read some of the flash, stories, poems and extracts from plays and novels that were the outcome of the exercises.
The exercises' variety ensures that you'll find ones that work for you, and each one that does will result in a work that you wouldn't otherwise have written. Dip in and see.
Google is suggested as a lucky-dip tool and well as a source of information. I can't help thinking that the phrase "other search engines are available" should appear somewhere.
I liked the white on white idea mentioned in Game 40. I liked "The Ridge" by Maria Sanger (a short story). My "A promising writer" is a sample response to game 16. I'd find game 50 hardest - Alice Wakefield's sample response would be completely beyond me - I couldn't keep my inner critic quiet that long.
Typo in "cricket 6" - in "you're going to pay Word Cricket", I think "pay" should be "play".
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