The Creative Writing Coursebook: Forty-Five Authors Share Advice and Exercises for Fiction and Poetry - Softcover

Bell, Julia; Motion, Andrew

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0333782259 ISBN 13: 9780333782255

Publisher: Macmillan, 2001

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Macmillan
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0333782259
• ISBN 13: 9780333782255
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 416