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This was a Goodreads First Reads Giveaway win, and it's also one of the best books for writers I've ever read. Alongside Natalie Goldberg's Writing Down the Bones and Ray Bradbury's Zen in the Art of Writing, Robot Coconut Trees will be a book I return to often when I begin to doubt myself and my writing abilities.

Along with her wonderful words of encouragement and stories of her own struggles, Horton includes several exercises that involve freewriting, journaling, and others to get your head out of the tall grass and back into your writing. This is a place I find myself often, so it's nice to have some ideas of how to break myself out of it and get back to what's important.

I highly recommend this book to any and all writers, whether you've been writing for years or haven't actually picked up a pen since grade school but have all these ideas, Robot Coconut Trees is for you.

And if you're wondering why on Earth she called her book Robot Coconut Trees, well... you'll just have to pick up a copy and find out.

Oh, Kelsey also sent a very nice Thank You card with my copy of the book, which was very sweet of her.
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regularguy5mb | 2 andra recensioner | Jun 13, 2017 |
Robot Coconut Trees by Kelsey Horton is a great for helping new writers overcome the initial hurdles they encounter when thinking about being a writer.

Like so many endeavors, the first few obstacles are usually internally based. Horton does a phenomenal job of highlighting these issues and then helping the reader to overcome them. This is less about the nuts and bolts of writing and more about helping get to where one can actually use those nuts and bolts.

I am a big advocate of freewriting, dating back to my days teaching freshman comp, and the exercises in this book are interesting and worthwhile. If you don't do them or put off doing them then you haven't been fair to either this book or yourself.

I would highly recommend this to new writers as well as experienced writers who may need to remind themselves that writing can and should be creative fun, no matter the genre.

Reviewed from a copy made available through Goodreads' First Reads.
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pomo58 | 2 andra recensioner | Nov 10, 2016 |
When I decided to begin my career as a romance author I had already become quite astute at writing; however the writing had been of the non-fiction variety, it had been articles for a community newspaper several years. Becoming successful did not happen overnight. I knew what I wanted to write about, but it took a while to learn how to express my thoughts into words on the computer in front of me. By the time I wrote my last article I thought easily write what I wanted [1,000 word limit] in less than 90 minutes.

The writing bug had gotten into my blood and I dreamt about being an author of fiction. Too bad I didn’t have a book like this when I started. While this book doesn’t teach its readers anything about grammar or any of the rules related to the genre you’re interested in writing in, it does help them with accessing their untapped well of creativity and break free of the world they’ve created for themselves.

Luckily I never really had suffered from any mental limitations such: as being perfect in what I’m writing, that’s why there’s a delete key on the keyboard of your computer, erasers at the end of a pencil, and an editor once you’ve finished your writing endeavor. Nor did really have any doubt in my writing fiction, I already knew it would have to take time, just as it did when I started writing the non-fiction items I did, I knew I would have to be patient as it wouldn’t happen immediately.

The worst affliction any author/writer, even the most experienced one, can have is Writer’s Block; a condition in which one doesn’t know what to write next to complete their intended writing endeavor. I quickly learned I needed a prompt, a topic to write something about, a topic totally different from what I had been writing about.

What Ms. Kelsey Horton does in her book is to guide her readers through the maze of obstacles/hurdles, many of which I feel is self-inflicted, moving from the “I WISH” mode to that of “I AM,” and the empowerment of being anything you want as it pertains to writing. The ideas and prompts she gives act as a seed from which one can move on from their creativity stoppage, and even develop their own ideas to increase their creativity.

Since I’ve already been down this road, I know this book should be able to help its readers to begin to breaking out of the shell they’re currently in, and to begin their dream; which is why I’ve given this book 5 STARS
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MyPenNameOnly | 2 andra recensioner | Jul 20, 2016 |

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