Creative Writing (Pocket Essentials) - Softcover

Nixon, Neil

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1904048099 ISBN 13: 9781904048091

Publisher: Pocket Essentials, 2002

Synopsis

What is Creative Writing? It is an academic subject, a popular pastime, a road to self-revelation and the start of a potentially lucrative career. The path chosen and the progress made is the result of choices made by the writer. The potential for Creative Writing to increase and enhance the lives of its practitioners has been proven repeatedly. Creative Writing includes prose and poetry. It covers great and complex works and tiny, focused fragments. It takes in aspects of creative thinking and commercial wisdom. Above all, Creative Writing is time for yourself and the freedom to explore and achieve.

Creative Writing is a subject best practised in an environment offering both encouragement and practical instruction. An environment where every piece of work can be reviewed and reflected upon. This Pocket Essential can help you find this place.

What's in it? An introductory essay defining Creative Writing. A consideration of the major areas and approaches. Chapters on: getting started; developing technique, plotting and themes; making meaning and making money. A range of work is reviewed and analysed. There is a consistent emphasis on empowering the reader to focus on his/her own ambitions and create work to achieve targets.

About this title

About the Author

Neil Nixon spent most of his adult life combining the careers of a professional creative and an academic. He is the author of over two dozen books, a scriptwriter for screen, stage and radio, a comedy writer and a journalist who has published on subjects including sport, current affairs and music. UFOs and the paranormal have been a mainstay of his writing work. For decades this work was combined with teaching those who wanted to work in the media industry and for the final two decades of Neil's academic career he founded and ran the UK's first full-time higher education course in Professional Writing. Neil has a website at www.neilnixon.com.

Edition details

• Publisher: Pocket Essentials
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1904048099
• ISBN 13: 9781904048091
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 96