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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)
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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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30 of 32 people found the following review helpful:
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Easy to read and full of good advice,
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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.
11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
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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.
17 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
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Excellent workbook,
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This is the set book on the Open University Creative Writing Course. It has everything you need to get you started and develop your writing from using a journal to presenting work professionally. There are readings in the back of the book which illustrate the text.
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