Writing Fiction

ISBN-13: 9780415461559 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 224 str.

Linda Anderson

Opis

Offers the novice writer engaging and creative activities, making use of insightful, relevant readings from well-known authors to illustrate the techniques presented. This volume makes use of the key chapters from the Routledge/Open University textbook "Creative Writing: A Workbook with Readings" for writers who are specializing in fiction.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. Stimulating Creativity: What Really Works  2. Keeping a Writer's Notebook  3. Character Creation  4. Setting  5. Point of View: Trying on Voices  6. Point of View: Degrees of Knowing  7. Showing and Telling  8. Structure  9. The Story and The Reader

O autorze

Linda Anderson is an award-winning novelist and is editor of Creative Writing, A Workbook with Readings (2006, Routledge). She is Reader in Creative Writing at the Open University and a National Teaching Fellow.

Derek Neale is Lecturer in Creative Writing at the Open University. He is an award-winning fiction writer and is editor of A Creative Writing Handbook (2009, A&C Black) and co-author of Life Writing (2008, Routledge).