Write Every Day: Daily practice to kickstart your creative writing - Softcover

Harriet Griffey

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1784883344 ISBN 13: 9781784883348

Publisher: Hardie Grant Books, 2020

Synopsis

'And what is this writing, anyway, as a human activity or as a vocation, or as a profession, or as a hack job, or perhaps even as an art, and why do so many people feel compelled to do it?'

- from On Writers and Writing, by Margaret Atwood

Writing for yourself is a wonderful way to explore personal creativity and whatever you want to write, a daily practice will enhance your skill and confidence.

Write Every Day is a brilliantly accessible book that demystifies the process and will help you see new ways to put pen to paper and discover your own unique writing style. Divided into 12 sections that range across voice, narrative, plot, structure, point of view, characterisation, dialogue, fiction, non-fiction, poetry, prose and memoir, Harriet Griffey shows you how to let go of any inhibitions, overcome writers block and expand your writing potential.

Featuring creative writing tasks to develop ideas and skills, quick and simple word play tasks, as well as practical exercises, journal reminders and other writer's tips and inspiring quotes, Write Every Day is an exciting way to unleash your inner wordsmith, kick-start your imagination and get you writing.

About this title

About the Author

Harriet Griffey is a tutor at the Creative Writing Consultancy, and was previously a commissioning editor at George Allen & Unwin and editorial director at Macdonald Publishers. She also leads and facilitates writersretreat.org, is an ex-publisher, published author and journalist, and has an MA in Modern and Contemporary Literature.

Author of over 20 books, she has been published by Penguin, Bloomsbury, Pan Macmillan and Hardie Grant publishers. She is also editorial consultant to the literary magazine One Hand Clapping, columnist at In The Moment magazine and cultural editor at The Ecologist.

As a print journalist she was written for all the UK national newspapers, and was a past book reviewer at the FT. As a broadcast journalist she has worked for both the BBC and LBC radio.

From the Back Cover

"And what is this writing, anyway, as a human activity or as a vocation, or as a profession, or as a hack job, or perhaps even as an art, and why do so many people feel compelled to do it?" - from On Writers and Writing, by Margaret Atwood

Writing for yourself is a wonderful way to explore personal creativity and whatever you want to write, a daily practice will enhance your skill and confidence.

Write Every Day is a brilliantly accessible book that demystifies the process and will help you see new ways to put pen to paper and discover your own unique writing style. Divided into 12 sections that range across voice, narrative, plot, structure, point of view, characterisation, dialogue, fiction, non-fiction, poetry, prose and memoir, Harriet Griffey shows you how to let go of any inhibitions, overcome writers block and expand your writing potential.

Featuring creative writing tasks to develop ideas and skills, quick and simple word play tasks, as well as practical exercises, journal reminders and other writer's tips and inspiring quotes, Write Every Day is an exciting way to unleash your inner wordsmith, kick-start your imagination and get you writing.

Edition details

• Publisher: Hardie Grant Books
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1784883344
• ISBN 13: 9781784883348
• Binding: Flexibound
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224