Creative Writing Coursebook
Forty Writers Share Advice &
Exercises for Poetry & Prose

Edited By Julia Bell & Paul Magrs
Macmillan
December 2001
ISBN: 0-333-78225-9
404 p.
$32.50 paper original

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This coursebook takes aspiring writers through three stages of practice: Gathering - getting started, learning how to keep notes making observations and using memory; Shaping - looking at structure, point of view, character and setting; and Finishing - being you own critic, joining workshops, finding publishers. Contents include: Keeping a Diary, Creative Writing Workshy, Articles of Faith, Poetry & Science, Writing From Experience, Character Characterization, Writing in the First Person, Multiple Points of View, Landscapes & Language, Narrative Structures, Plotting a Novel, Standards & Teaching, Going the Last Inch, Workshops, Listening to Criticism, How to Cook a Book, Literary Consultants & Agents, Revisions & Submission.

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