Stop, writer! Your syndrome of the blank page Sucks. Want To Know How To Fix It? If you read the two next paragraphs it will be impossible for you not to learn two ways to use this book to definitely overcome writer's block. Impossible. It's a deal. <p> </p> <p><strong>˃˃˃ Way 1: Copywork.</strong> Open the book and you will see that the even pages, those on the left, have text, while the odd pages, those on the right, are blank. Copy all the text by hand, literally, word for word and punctuation mark for punctuation mark, in the blank pages.</p> <p><strong>˃˃˃ Way 2: Adapt.</strong> Update, modernize, the text. Read the page on the left, and on the blank page on the right begin writing the draft of your own version focusing on the elements you want to explore. Change the setting, plot events, and characterization, but always with the guidance of the text.</p> <p>Deal fulfilled! </p> <p><strong>*** You will ask yourself…</strong></p> <p>If I follow the <strong>first way</strong>, is not something too simple, literally copy what is already written?</p> <p>Answer…</p> <p>Many of history's greatest writers achieved that status not from harkening to the muses, but by laboriously copying the work of others:</p> <p>Jack London, Robert Louis Stevenson, Billy Collins, Benjamin Franklin, Stephen King, Hunter S. Thompson, Steven Pressfield...</p> <p>Copywork has the following <strong>advantages</strong>:</p> <ul> <li>Improves your writing style</li> <li>Improves memory and focus</li> <li>Improves handwriting</li> </ul> <p>And above all:</p> <ul> <li>Establish a regular writing habit</li> </ul> <p>"Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work."<br>Stephen King</p> <p><strong>*** You will ask yourself…</strong></p> <p>If I follow the <strong>second way</strong>, where is the originality? Will not be this plagiarism?</p> <p>Answer…</p> <p>To begin with, the text is in the <strong>public domain