Word Power: A guide to creative writing - Softcover

Julian Birkett

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0713648503 ISBN 13: 9780713648508

Publisher: A&C Black Academic and Professional, 1998

Synopsis

Many of us would like to write but find it difficult to begin. This book provides practical suggestions to help all writers give shape and substance to their ideas. There are tips on subjects to write about, ways of approaching them and how to develop writer's skills and critical powers.

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From the Back Cover

Many of us would like to write but find it difficult to start. Word Power is an excellent way in to creative writing, providing a mine of colourful, interesting material and practical suggestions to help new writers give shape and substance to their ideas.

A wide range of literary forms, ranging from one act plays and novels to 'shape poems' and sonnets are reviewed and the author explores many of the basic aspects of imaginative writing, such as the creation of characters, writing dialogue, different ways of using atmosphere and setting effectively. But the emphasis throughout is not on dissection but on doing -- and nearly all the chapters have lots of suggestions for subjects to write about and different ways of approaching them, to help develop the writer's skills and critical powers.

Informal, lucid and a good read, this is an excellent book for writers' groups, schools, colleges and all those who enjoy, or would like to try, writing for its own sake.

Edition details

• Publisher: A&C Black Academic and Professional
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0713648503
• ISBN 13: 9780713648508
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 192