Write Over the Top: A Writing Map to Fabulous Stories

by Shaun Levin, Sam Bryer (Illustrator)

Inspired by Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, and created in celebration of the 150th anniversary of Alice in Wonderland, the Write over the Top Writing Map will prompt you to invent, elaborate and exaggerate in order to create fabulous stories out of everyday life. Play with words, dreams and shape-shifting to find the stories that happen when you let go into feeling "bored", just waiting for something to happen while you sit drowsily on the banks of the river with the person next to you deeply engrossed in their book. Although devised for adults, these creative writing prompts are easily adaptable to suit all writers. The Writing Map is devised and written by Shaun Levin with illustrations by Sam Bryer. The A3 map (297x420mm) folds down to A6 (105x148mm, postcard size), and is printed on 130gsm paper in England.

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Published July 10, 2015

About the author

Shaun Levin is the author, most recently, of Snapshots of The Boy, an exploration of the unseen stories in photographs. His first book, Seven Sweet Things, published originally in the UK in 2003, has just be re-issued. His other books include A Year of Two Summers and Isaac Rosenberg's Journey to Arras: A Meditation.

He is currently completing the first in a trilogy of fictional biographies based on the lives of the artists Mark Gertler, Isaac Rosenberg, and David Bomberg. An extract from the Mark Gertler novel won the Moment-Karma Fiction Prize in 2006 and can be found on his website, shaunlevin.com.

Shaun has recently written and launched a series of illustrated creative writing maps of inspiration, Writing Maps.

He is also the founding editor of the international queer literary and arts journal, Chroma.