A fifty percent revision of a popular Complete Idiot's Guide[registered] that now, more than ever, offers readers a thorough, creative writing class in a book, with Dr. Laurie Rozakis as their teacher. The book is refocused to more of an academic approach. Readers can begin to unlock their creativity from the first page, with fabulous exercises that help them explore their talents and experiment with different genres and forms of writing. These include: short stories, narrative nonfiction, memoirs, magazine articles, poetry, drama and blogging/freewriting.