Creative Writing

A Practical Guide

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Creative Writing

A Practical Guide

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This book is a practical guide to creative writing, providing advice on style and form, and help with developing work to be read or heard and how to get published. Drawing on interviews with other writers, and her own long experience as a poet and tutor, Julia Casterton examines many kinds of writing - autobiography, poetry, dialogue, short stories, writing for screen and longer fiction. The third edition includes three completely new chapters, covering preparing poetry for performance and publication, writing your own myth and how to do research. This final chapter will be based on interviews with a novelist, poet and script-writer and will provide a checklist of the stages needed to research a story, poem, novel or film.

Table of Contents

Preface
 Why Write?
 The Space We Inhabit
 Bringing your Descriptions to Life
 Making your Characters Speak
 Making a Short Story
 Speaking in Different Tongues, Different Tones
 Hold the Tension, Hold the Energy
 Myth and Making a Narrative
 Developing your Narrative
 Writing Poetry
 Preparing your Poems for Performance and Publication
 Love Writing
 Doing your Research
 Writing for Yourself Alone
 Reaching an Audience
 Further Reading Some Useful Websites and Addresses
 Index.

Product details

Published 21 Apr 2005
Format Hardback
Edition 3rd
Extent 200
ISBN 9781403945419
Imprint Red Globe Press
Dimensions Not specified
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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Julia Casterton

JULIA CASTERTON sometime Teacher for the City Lite…

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