Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #7876 in Books
• Published on: 2005-01-26
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 664 pages

Synopsis
"Creative Writing: A Workbook with Readings" 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; an 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.

It also offers: 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.

Customer Reviews

Easy to read and full of good advice
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.

Excellent workbook
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.

Boost your creative writing
This book is fantastic. It gives a clear explanation of the various aspects of writing. There are lots of interesting and useful exercises to help you improve your writing.