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Everything You Need to Know About Creative Writing: (But Knowing Isn't Everything...)


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About the Book

Everything You Need to Know About Creative Writing is an accessible, lively and entertaining companion providing practical and informative guidance for anyone interested in developing their writing including members of writing groups, aspiring writers and students taking courses in creative writing. The ideal guide to creative writing, it offers: - An essential, easy-to-use, reference covering all aspects of creative writing including the creative process; form and style; troubleshooting; workshopping; peer review; publishing etc. - An informative, witty and stress-relieving companion for the struggling student, writer and tutor - no-nonsense, practical advice and guidance - Useful contents lists by topic provide alternative routes through the book to enable readers to follow up particular interests or problems - Extensive cross-references to other entries and guides to further reading

Table of Contents:
Introduction; Alternative routes through the guide - A-Z entries include: Action; beginnings; blogs; card indexes; caricature; characterisation; confidence; criticism; digression; directness; double-spacing; e-books; editing; ends; English; events; failure; first person; free verse; getting lost; hooks; house style; inspiration; Internet, journals; length; literature; manuscript; metaphor; Modernism; motivation; Muds and Moos; narrative tension; negativity; novel; openings; page-breaks; perfectionism; plagiarism; proofreading; readers; reflective writing; research; self-criticism; self-publishing; short-story; simile; skills; slang; surrealism; tension; third-person; Trace Online Community; troubleshooting; verbs; violence; websites; white space; widows and orphans; words; work and writing for children and many more.

About the Author :
Heather Leach is Senior Lecturer in the Contemporary Arts department of Manchester Metropolitan University. She is a published short story writer and won the THES Essay Prize 2004. Robert Graham is Creative Writing Subject Leader in the Contemporary Arts department of Manchester Metropolitan University. He is a published short story writer and also writes plays.

Review :
"This offering from the United Kingdom is a handy manual of terms in alphabetical order to aid and advise aspiring (or blocked) novelists, short story writers, playwrights, and poets. Authors Heather Leach and Robert Graham as well as five more contributors listed at the book's beginning are all published fiction writers and professors of creative writing at various universities in England... As a final testimonial to the practicality of this manual: during the course of reading this book, I sat down and cranked out an original short story. While I do not claim that it is a great creative work, Leach and Graham must concur that, for the moment, I have transcended writer's block and conquered problems with beginnings." -Helynne H. Hansen, Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature, Fall 2008 '...each entry provides an informed discussion of its topic...It is worth keeping on your shelves both to use for reference when you need information, or just for browsing when you need information' Writing Magazine ."..a mini-encyclopedia of every aspect of writing." Reviewed in Writing Magazine, 2008. 'If you haven't started writing your book yet, don't do so until you have consulted Everything You Need to Know About Creative Writing, by Heather Leach and Robert Graham (Continuum, 12.99), an A-Z of essential tools of the writer's trade. It is a sign of the times that a book about artistic expression has entries under Race, Gender, Political correctness and Quilting- 'stitching together chapters which, when completed, form a picture'.'- J.C., TLS, August 24 & 31


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780826490216
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
  • Height: 140 mm
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: (But Knowing Isn't Everything...)
  • Width: 216 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0826490212
  • Publisher Date: 31 May 2007
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Spine Width: 15 mm
  • Weight: 410 gr


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