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Let the Crazy Child Write!

Finding Your Creative Writing Voice

By: Clive Matson

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Paperback | 18 November 2025

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Let the Crazy Child Write! grew out of hundreds of creative writing workshops that Clive Matson has led during his career as poet and writer. Here he guides readers - as individuals or in groups - through twelve seminars designed to overcome inhibitions, locate hidden originality, and find a true creative writing voice. Let the Crazy Child Write! links the playful energy of the creative unconscious - essential to strong writing - to a solid, in-depth course of writing basics: Image Detail, Slow Motion, Hook, Persona Writing, Point of View, Dialogue, Plot, Narrative Presence, Good Clich©s, Character, Surrealism, and Resolution. It is a comprehensive, hands-on - and fun - working seminar that will help both novices and professionals improve their writing abilities and unleash their creativity.

Industry Reviews

"Clive Matson, a master teacher, set me on the path to writing freely, to writing with exuberance and joy."

- Isabelle Maynard, author of China Dreams

"Clive encourages the discovery of what so impassions us to write in the first place, what he calls the voice of 'the Crazy Child' - the intuitive, the raw, the bloody."

- Laura Glen Louis, author of "Fur" from The Best American Short Stories 1994

"I've seen every kind of writer come from Clive's workshops very much improved and with a newfound confidence. He cherishes the primary impulse to create in everyone. He leads his merry band of writers to a place of vibrant self-realization; his humor and enthusiasm are as infectious as his wisdom."

- Joe Quirk, author of The Ultimate Rush

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