Hart Day Leavitt (1909–2008)

This book does what no other writing course has been able to do. It provides the student with as close to actual experience in the field as you could ever hope to get from reading a book, because it teaches you how to pay attention to the world around you in order to improve your perception and memory and explore different ways of expressing your personal experiences on paper.
Designed primarily as a school book aimed at children in full time education, I found it valuable as a self study aid for anyone interested in improving their creative writing.
I have only just begun using this method, but already I can see many practical applications. The techniques this book teaches are likely to have far reaching effects not only in the field of composition but in helping anyone who is wishing to,improve their thought processes through increased observation and memory retention.
In that respect I found Tony Buzan's book Use Your Head to be an excellent companion book as it teaches you other ways of improving long and short term memory and I feel that memory is the key to recall, and if you are able to quickly and accurately recall more details then your mind is free to think more creatively about how that information can be displayed on paper in a more poetic way perhaps.… (more)