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Creative Writing: A Workbook with Readings [Paperback]

Linda Anderson , Derek Neale
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6 Dec 2005 0415372437 978-0415372435 New Ed

Creative Writing is a complete writing course that will jump-start your writing and guide you through your first steps towards publication.

Suitable for use by students, tutors, writers’ groups or writers working alone, this book offers:

  • a practical and inspiring section on the creative process, showing you how to stimulate your creativity and use your memory and experience in inventive ways
  • in-depth coverage of the most popular forms of writing, in extended sections on fiction, poetry and life writing, including biography and autobiography, giving you practice in all three forms so that you might discover and develop your particular strengths
  • a sensible, up-to-date guide to going public, to help you to edit your work to a professional standard and to identify and approach suitable publishers
  • a distinctive collection of exciting exercises, spread throughout the workbook to spark your imagination and increase your technical flexibility and control
  • a substantial array of illuminating readings, bringing together extracts from contemporary and classic writings in order to demonstrate a range of techniques that you can use or adapt in your own work.

Creative Writing: A Workbook with Readings presents a unique opportunity to benefit from the advice and experience of a team of published authors who have also taught successful writing courses at a wide range of institutions, helping large numbers of new writers to develop their talents as well as their abilities to evaluate and polish their work to professional standards. These institutions include Lancaster University and the University of East Anglia, renowned as consistent producers of published writers.


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  • Paperback: 664 pages
  • Publisher: Routledge; New Ed edition (6 Dec 2005)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0415372437
  • ISBN-13: 978-0415372435
  • Product Dimensions: 18.9 x 3.4 x 24.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 50,380 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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‘For anyone getting going as a writer (and even for those who have already made a start), this is an invaluable how-to guide, full of useful tips, mind-freeing exercises, and inspiring wisdom from established authors. A book to banish the terror of the blank page.’ – Blake Morrison, journalist, critic and acclaimed author of fiction, non-fiction and poetry, including the multi-award-winning And When Did You Last See Your Father? (Granta, 1993)

About the Author

Linda Anderson is an award-winning novelist (To Stay Alive and Cuckoo, both published by Bodley Head) and writer of short stories, poetry, performance pieces, and critical reviews. Her work has been published in Britain, Ireland, the USA, and Australia. She has taught at Goldsmiths' College and at Lancaster University for ten years, becoming Head of Creative Writing from 1995-2002. She has designed several successful courses including a training programme for new writing tutors and an MA in Creative Writing by distance learning. She has also worked as a producer and director for BBC Radio Drama. She has a PhD in Creative Writing.


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37 of 39 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Easy to read and full of good advice 16 April 2007
Format:Paperback
I am studying this book in conjunction with the Open University course and I can say that this is the best creative writing book that I have ever read.

It suggests exercises to help you tap into your own creativity without being prescriptive and allows you to work out what is best for your own work, while providing readings that illustrate the techniques suggested.

Not just a book that you can work through but something that you can keep forever and flick through for inspiration whenever you get a little stuck.
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21 of 22 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Writing, Creative 14 Jan 2009
Format:Paperback
I'm also studying with the OU and am using this as a set book. It's on the level 2 (mid level) A215 course.

The first section of the book is devoted to prose writing and develops characters and scenery, tense and narrative, and other technical aspects of writing short stories.

The second section is about writing poetry- about alliteration, where to break up lines, how to approach writing series and themed poems.

The third section gives a sensitive approach to 'life writing' or biographies and true stories.

There's also a section on how to get published, things like market, presentation and pitfalls.

Lots of readings and practcal exercises to work through, ways to encourage the muses and how to avoid writers block. Had a lot of fun writing poems about tea cups and stories about the neighbours...

It's not a quick book to get through- it's a university course book so it's not written for a quick read. It can be pretty intense, but maybe thats the time line associated with it in some aspects. The course does one chapter per week.

There are different writers writing different sections so it's not generalised by one author who thinks he/she knows all about writing. It's written pretty well, which is what you'd expect. So yes, i'd recommend.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
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I own this book - it was part of the OU creative writing course I took a few years ago - and have found it clear, concise and full of ideas. In particular the exercises were innovative and helpful.

By the time (in the course) that we attended our poetry seminar, those of us who completed all the exercises had written drafts of 27 poems! Not bad for one book, and there are equivalent numbers of exercises for the fiction and life writing sections, plus the publication section.

The readings included illuminate the points made in the text and introduced me to some new authors and genres.

My only hesitation in giving this five stars is that it is designed to be used as part of a range of materials, including audio, and so I am not qualified to judge it as a freestanding item. I have returned to it for practice many times since completign the course, but if you are considering buying this book, I would recommend the OU course in full instead as there is so much more to it!
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5.0 out of 5 stars sorted
I now have 2 of these books floating around the house but the exercises are amazing if you are teaching secondary or exploring writing yourself
Published 18 days ago by Cally
3.0 out of 5 stars Disappointment
Though the book is not too bad I would expect a little more insight from an Open University book. For example it doesn't give advice on monologue / dialogue ratio even though it's... Read more
Published 20 days ago by Realisticly123
4.0 out of 5 stars Clear explanations of basic concepts and great writing exercises
Creative Writing: A Workbook with Readings is divided into five different sections of more or less equal length: writing fiction, poetry, life writing (including biography and... Read more
Published 3 months ago by Minnilux
5.0 out of 5 stars Great! Exactly as needed
Great! Exactly as needed. A good starter for all budding writers. There are some good reading exercises in the book also.
Published 4 months ago by James Broughton
4.0 out of 5 stars Well written & helpful
Good to read and for referral purposes. Useful asset for a writer.
Still not finished it so unable to comment more.
Published 4 months ago by jnic
5.0 out of 5 stars A great book to will give you a solid foundation in writing for a...
To really understand the value of this book, you have to understand that it forms the backbone of a university course from the Open University. A course that costs £700. Read more
Published 23 months ago by Mrs. L Newman
4.0 out of 5 stars inspirational material for putative writers
a thoughtful collection of exercises designed to draw from the writer's imagination all the essential aspects of the craft, and referenced to carefully selected illustrative... Read more
Published on 20 Jun 2010 by S. Bloxham
5.0 out of 5 stars Creative Writing
This book is an excellent guide to developing your creative writing; not only a 'must have'but also a 'must use'. Read more
Published on 17 Nov 2009 by Mrs. I. J. Smith
1.0 out of 5 stars Easy the worst book I have read on this subject
One star given because Amazon does not give zero stars

There are dozens of good books on creative writing: Bickham; Motion and Bell; Magrs; the Dummies book. Read more
Published on 24 Mar 2009 by msp
5.0 out of 5 stars Really excellent book
I have to say that this is the best creative writing book that I've seen to date. Having skimmed through and bought others only to be disappointed with them, I was delighted with... Read more
Published on 24 Feb 2009 by E. Flanagan
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