The Creative Writing Coursebook
Forty-Five Authors Share Advice and Exercises for Fiction and Poetry
Published on 10. August 2001
Book
Paperback/Softback
416 pages
978-0-333-78225-5 (ISBN)
Description
The success of the writing courses at UEA belies the myth that writing can't be taught. This coursebook takes aspiring writers through three stages of practice: Gathering - getting started, learning how to keep notes, making observations and using memory; Shaping - looking at structure, point of view, character and setting; and Finishing - being your own critic, joining workshops, finding publishers.
Throughout exercises and activities encourage writers to develop their skills. Contributions from forty authors provide a unique and generous pool of information, experience and advice.This is the perfect book for people who are just starting to write as well as for those who want some help honing work already completed. It will suit people writing for publication or just for their own pleasure, those writing on their own or writing groups.
Throughout exercises and activities encourage writers to develop their skills. Contributions from forty authors provide a unique and generous pool of information, experience and advice.This is the perfect book for people who are just starting to write as well as for those who want some help honing work already completed. It will suit people writing for publication or just for their own pleasure, those writing on their own or writing groups.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Pan Macmillan
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Interest Age: From 18 years
Product notice
Paperback (UK-trade)
Dimensions
Height: 210 mm
Width: 148 mm
Thickness: 31 mm
Weight
472 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-333-78225-5 (9780333782255)
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Julia Bell | Paul Magrs
The Creative Writing Coursebook
Forty Authors Share Advice and Exercises for Fiction and Poetry
E-Book
01/2016
Macmillan
€25.49
Available for download
Persons
Julia Bell is a writer and Senior Lecturer at Birkbeck College, London where she is the Course Director of the Creative Writing MA. She is the author of three novels, most recently The Dark Light, the co editor of the Creative Writing Coursebook as well as three volumes of short stories. She also takes photographs, writes poetry, short stories, occasional essays and journalism. She divides her time between London and Berlin.