Creative Writing For Dummies

Maggie Hamand

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Language: English

Published by John Wiley & Sons Inc, United States, 2009

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Unlock your creativity and choose the genre of writing that suits you bestDo you have an idea that youre burning to get down on paper? Do you want to document your travels to far-flung places, or write a few stanzas of poetry? Whether you dream of being a novelist, a travel writer, a poet, a playwright or a columnist, Creative Writing For Dummies shows you how to unlock your creativity and choose the genre of writing that suits you best. Walking you through characterisation, setting, dialogue and plot, as well as giving expert insights into both fiction and non-fiction, its the ideal launching pad to the world of creative writing. Creative Writing For Dummies covers: Part I: Getting started Chapter 1: Can Everyone Write?Chapter 2: Getting into the Write MindChapter 3: Finding the Material to work with Part II: The Elements of Creative Writing Chapter 4: Creating CharactersChapter 5: Discovering DialogueChapter 6: Who is telling the story?Chapter 7: Creating your own worldChapter 8: Plotting your wayChapter 9: Creating a StructureChapter 10: Rewriting and editing Part III: Different Kinds of Fiction Writing Chapter 11: Short storiesChapter 12: NovelsChapter 13: Writing for childrenChapter 14: PlaysChapter 15: ScreenplaysChapter 16: Poetry Part IV: Different kinds of Non-fiction writing Chapter 17: Breaking into journalism - Writing articles/ magazine writingChapter 18: Writing from life and autobiographyChapter 19: Embroidering the facts: Narrative non-fictionChapter 20: Exploring the world from your armchair - Travel writingChapter 21: Blogging the new big thing Part V: Finding an audience Chapter 22: Finding editors/ publishers/ agentsChapter 23: Becoming a professional Part VI: Part of Tens Chapter 24: Ten top tips for writersChapter 25: Ten ways to get noticed. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. …

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Title
Creative Writing For Dummies
Author
Maggie Hamand
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons Inc, United States
Publication year
2009
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Very Good
Binding
Paperback
Language
English
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0470742917
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9780470742914
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