DO YOU FEEL LIKE WRITING?

A CREATIVE GUIDE TO ARTISTIC CONFIDENCE

By Frankie Rollins

The most essential tools for being a writer are already inside you. Do You Feel Like Writing? cultivates the artistic confidence to harness your intuitive brain, rethink time, embrace your experiences, and build a sustainable writing life. Guiding you through explorations of your imagination, this book tells tales about the writing life and offers inventive prompts to help you understand why and what you want to write. You are the muse you seek!

This book invites you to:

  • study how your imagination works

  • accept the material that comes to you

  • consider your dreams and daydreams as writing material

  • find constructive feedback, reject lousy feedback, and advocate for your work

  • investigate rituals for your writing practices

  • trust that you have what you need to write

Published: Fifth Brain Collective, July 13, 2023

ISBN: 979-8988193708

"In a sea of how-to creative writing books, Do You Feel Like Writing? stands out due to how Rollins values the magic of each reader's individual imagination while also offering practical ideas and prompts useful for anyone who longs to express themselves, but feels like they don't have the time or confidence. The book embodies the perfect marriage between honoring the mystical creative spark within all of us (what Rollins calls the Fifth Brain) and sharing the tools and motivation we need to materialize that spark."

— ANDREA F.

BOOK TRAILER!

Check out the trailer for Do You Feel Like Writing? created by Ted Knighton and Lyle Holdahl.

REVIEWS FOR DO YOU FEEL LIKE WRITING?

  • "As I read this book, I filled notebook pages, sent long messages to writer friends I love, had strange and fresh encounters with strangers, and began to feel again the poetics of the world around me."

    –Henry C

  • "I’ve already read it several times and I return to this book to write, yes, and also to feel more alive. Through prompts, personal narrative, and a grounded dose of optimism, Rollins leads us to dance on 'this loose footing of being a writer on the ever-changing soil of our own cells.' How lucky to be a human animal capable of what she calls the 'eloquence of growth.'"

    –TC Tolbert

  • "I love this book. It makes perfect sense as a guide to writing, but it's so much more than that. I've been dormant on my writing for awhile, but Frankie's writing philosophy has invigorated me once again."

    –Mark T. Moxley

  • ​"In Do You Feel Like Writing, Rollins grants writers permission to think outside the box, to experiment, to challenge the constraints of social hierarchies and more importantly — and often, more paralyzing — the preconceived notions within one’s own mind."

    –C. Armstrong

  • "I can’t recommend this book highly enough—I bought the paperback and then had to get the Kindle version so I’d have it with me—and I have highlighted the hell out of both!"

    –CJ

  • "Rollins’ prose is a joy to read! And I love the prompts at the end of every chapter and the full chapter of prompts at the end. It’s a luxurious list, and I love picking a prompt to jump-start my writing—morning, afternoon, or 2am-can’t-sleep writing. I also appreciate that Rollins adheres to no lockjaw approach but acknowledges and affirms all the ways our imaginations are quirky, individual, beautiful gifts."

    –S. Shattuck

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OTHER PUBLICATIONS

Frankie has published several other works of fiction. Check out more of her work below!