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A comprehensive guide for improving your creative writing, including contributions from David Lodge, Nell Dunn, Malcolm Bradbury, Maureen Freely and Patricia Duncker.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.Product Identifiers
PublisherPan Macmillan
ISBN-139780333782255
eBay Product ID (ePID)89711752
Product Key Features
Number of Pages416 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameThe Creative Writing Coursebook: Forty-Five Authors Share Advice and Exercises for Fiction and Poetry
Publication Year2001
SubjectHobbies, Self-Study
TypeTextbook
AuthorPaul Magrs, Julia Bell
FormatPaperback
Dimensions
Item Height210 mm
Item Weight472 g
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
Title_AuthorPaul Magrs, Julia Bell