Creative Exercises for Writers Groups - Softcover

Chiswick, Lynne

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798638299156

Publisher: Independently published, 2020

Synopsis

This practical handbook is aimed at Writers Groups who feel they could benefit from more structure in meetings to help encourage and enhance their members' writing skills by providing stimulating and entertaining exercises. It also provides useful, tested advice on how to go about setting up a new Writers Group and attracting members. It also provides useful, tested advice on how to go about setting up a new Writers Group and attracting members.The wide range of creative exercises included will help members develop their writing technique and improve their chances of publication. Topics include: •Your Writing Day•Getting Started•What makes a Good Short Story?•Developing your Plot•Openings and Endings •Developing your Characters•Who is Telling the Story?•Writing Dialogue•Observation and Description•Location•Emotions•Building in Pace, Tension, Conflict and Challenge•Using Metaphors, Similes and other Grammatical Forms•Using Letters, Emails, Texts and Diary Entries•Writing from Life Experience•Critiquing Existing WritingThe tried and tested material included in these pages, although aimed primarily at Writers Groups, would also be beneficial to individuals who are looking to improve their writing skills.Lynne Chiswick has established successful Writers Groups in London, Suffolk and East Sussex. She has written a wide range of exercises to help members develop their writing technique and improve their chances of publication. She has also written three novels, 'Deep Water', 'Breach of Trust' and 'The Venetian Madonna' and is currently working on a fourth novel

Edition details

• Publisher: Independently published
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798638299156
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 150