Get Started In Creative Writing: Teach Yourself
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Is this the right book for me? An indispensible guide to unlocking your creativity and finding your voice Get Started in Creative Writing will help you choose a genre of writing that suits you best, whether fiction or non-fiction, short stories or novels, children's books or travel writing. It features guidelines for do's and don'ts along with suggestions for crafting a distinctive style.With tips from some of the best-known writers of fiction and non-fiction, you will receive loads of helpful advice to enable you get your own work published. Get Started in Creative Writing includes: Chapter 1: Why write? Chapter 2: Ideas and inspirations Chapter 3: The feature article Chapter 4: The short story Chapter 5: Poetry Chapter 6: Creative non-fiction Chapter 7: Travel writing Chapter 8: Blogging Chapter 9: Writing for children Chapter 10: Starting to write a novel Chapter 11: Setting Chapter 12: Characterization Chapter 13: Plotting Chapter 14: Dialogue Chapter 15: The difficult business of second drafts Chapter 16: Writing stage plays Chapter 17: Writing radio plays Chapter 18: Screenwriting Chapter 19: Agents and publishers Chapter 20: Moving on Learn effortlessly with a new easy-to-read page design and interactive features: Not got much time? One, five and ten-minute introductions to key principles to get you started. Author insights Lots of instant help with common problems and quick tips for success, based on the author's many years of experience. Test yourself Tests in the book and online to keep track of your progress. Extend your knowledge Extra online articles to give you a richer understanding of the subject. Five things to remember Quick refreshers to help you remember the key facts. Try this Innovative exercises illustrate what you've learnt and how to use it.

Table of Contents:
INTRODUCTION 1. SO YOU WANT TO WRITE GETTING STARTED - THE PRACTICAL WAY 2 - FINDING YOUR VOICE 3 - HOW TO WRITE A SHORT STORY 4 - HOW TO WRITE A POEM 5 - SPOKEN WORD AND PERFORMANCE POETRY 6 - HOW TO WRITE A NOVEL 7 - WRITING FOR CHILDREN 8 - WRITING FOR YOUNG ADULTS 9 - WRITING SCIENCE FICTION 10 - WRITING A GRAPHIC NOVEL 11 - WRITING CREATIVE NON-FICTION 12 - WRITING FROM LIFE 13 - WRITING FROM HISTORY 14 - TRAVEL WRITING 15 - JOURNALISM: WRITING AN ARTICLE 16 - WRITING FOR TELEVISION 17- WRITING PLAYS 18 WRITING SCREENPLAYS 19 WRITING FOR THE INTERNET 20 - THE POWER AND ART OF EDITING AND REVISING 21 - FINDING AN AGENT OR GO DIRECT? 22 GETTING POETRY READY FOR PUBLISHERS 23 GETTING FICTION AND NON-FICTION READY FOR PUBLISHERS 24 - SUBMITTING A PLAY 25 SUBMITTING FOR TV AND RADIO 26 - SUBMITTING JOURNALISM 27 WRITER SUPPORT NETWORKS


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781444103182
  • Publisher: John Murray Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Teach Yourself
  • Height: 197 mm
  • No of Pages: 320
  • Spine Width: 21 mm
  • Width: 131 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1444103180
  • Publisher Date: 30 Apr 2010
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 260 gr


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