The Creative Writing Coursebook: 40 Authors Share Advice and Exercises for Fiction and Poetry

A comprehensive guide for improving your creative writing, including contributions from David Lodge, Nell Dunn, Malcolm Bradbury, Maureen Freely, and Patricia Duncker.The success of the writing courses in universities around the world belies the myth that good writing can't be taught. In The Creative Writing Coursebook, authors Julia Bell and Paul Magrs, take 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 your own critic, joining workshops, finding publishers).The exercises and activities throughout encourage writers to develop their skills. Contributions from forty authors provide a unique and generous pool of information, experience, and advice. The Creative Writing Coursebook is the perfect book for people who are just starting to write, as well as for those who want some help honing work already completed. It will suit people writing for publication or for pleasure; those writing on their own or writing groups.

• | Author: Julia Bell|Paul Magrs
• | Publisher: Macmillan UK
• | Publication Date: December 01, 2019
• | Number of Pages: 416 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1509868275
• | ISBN-13: 9781509868278