Creative Writing - A Practical Guide

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.>

List 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.

About the author

JULIA CASTERTON sometime Teacher for the City Literary Institute, UK.

Product details

• Authors: Julia Casterton
• Publisher: Macmillan
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.04.2005
• EAN: 9781403945419
• ISBN: 978-1-4039-4541-9
• No. of pages: 200
• Subjects: Guides > Law, job, finance > Training, job, career; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; Non-fiction book > Art, literature > Literature: general, reference works; B, Linguistics, English, English Language, Social Sciences