- Hardcover: 208 pages
- Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; 3rd edition edition (21 April 2005)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1403945411
- ISBN-13: 978-1403945419
- Product Dimensions: 21.8 x 14 x 1.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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'Julia Casterton's book lives up to its title in providing a practical handbook for the writer...this guide is undoubtedly a valuable resource.' - Bloc Online: A Place for Writers and Writing
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This book is a practical guide to creative writing, providing advice on style and form, and help with developing work to be read or heard and how to get published. Drawing on interviews with other writers, and her own long experience as a poet and tutor, Julia Casterton examines many kinds of writing - autobiography, poetry, dialogue, short stories, writing for screen and longer fiction. The third edition includes three completely new chapters, covering preparing poetry for performance and publication, writing your own myth and how to do research. This final chapter will be based on interviews with a novelist, poet and script-writer and will provide a checklist of the stages needed to research a story, poem, novel or film.
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9 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I am reading English at university, and found this book to be of tremendous use. It is expertly written and very informative. I found myself going back to this book time and time again. I would recommend this to anyone who wants to develop their own creative writing skills.
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I would highly recommend this whether you are a reader, writer or teacher (or all three, as I am). She demystifies technique and tools for intelligent analysis of creative writing, without disregarding the sheer hard work that is required; but you won't mind the work, because the the passion and clarity with which she writes is contagious.
2 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Because this book assumes some knowledge of the art of creative writing, it is not necessarily recommended for the beginner. The book includes many literary references which mean little if the reader is not familiar with the works referred to.
Whilst the introduction clearly sets out the aims of the book, I did not feel these were fully achieved by the end of the book. However, the book included lots of useful information on what should be achieved, but I would have liked more information on the practical side of how to do it.
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