The Writer's Way: A Complete Guide to Creative Writing with 40 Inspirational Projects - Softcover

Maitland, Sara

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1839407549 ISBN 13: 9781839407543

Publisher: Arcturus, 2020

Synopsis

Whether you are a total beginner or looking to hone your skills, The Writer's Way offers clear and no-nonsense guidance on the art of creative writing.

Award-winning author and creative writing teacher Sara Maitland is the perfect companion on this journey - providing practical advice and sharing with you the unrivalled joy that writing can bring. Including 40 literary exercises for you to work through, this book will help you:

• Decide on your project
• Establish useful writing habits
• Experiment with different forms
• Develop complex characters
• Overcome writers block
• And much more

Whether you read it in one sitting, or take your time working through the exercises as you go, this is a terrific book to get you going and keep you going, on the writer's way.

About this title

About the Author

Sara Maitland was born in 1950 and brought up in London and Scotland. She took a degree in English at Oxford University. Since 1979, She has published six novels and five collections of short stories as well as an eclectic range of non-fiction, from gardening history to feminist theology and has an extensive journalism portfolio. She has written extensively for BBC Radio. One of her radio plays, Other Voices, won the Media Mental Health Award in 2002. She was the last scriptwriter to work with Stanley Kubrick on AI - now a Spielberg film, and worked on the prize-winning animation The Pleasures of War. She teaches for Lancaster University's distance learning MA in Creative Writing, and is an editorial reader for TLC (a literary consultancy). Until last year she was the Course Leader in Creative Writing for the Open College of the Arts.

Edition details

• Publisher: Arcturus
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1839407549
• ISBN 13: 9781839407543
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240