A Creative Writing Handbook

A Creative Writing Handbook

Author: Bill Greenwell

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 432

ISBN-13:

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Packed with stimulating writing exercises, numerous quotes and over 30 extracts from literature across a wide variety of genres, this book will both inspire and assist anyone interested in creative writing. The book can be followed as a complete course or dipped into as desired.


Creative Writer's Handbook

Creative Writer's Handbook

Author: Philip K. Jason

Publisher: Prentice Hall

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 434

ISBN-13: 9780131893719

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This handbook is the perfect reference for beginning creative writers. It offers abundant illustrations, exercises, and useful techniques in all genres. While emphasizing problem-solving and the mastery of literary conventions, this handbook also takes the apprentice writer on a journey from inspiration to revision.Explores the work of ¿classic¿ modern as well as active contemporary writers through examples of effective stories, essays, poems and plays. An extensive look at fundamental creative writing issues includes attitudes, habits, journal-keeping, point of view, language, invention and research, and more.Appropriate for apprentice creative writers.


The Creative Writing MFA Handbook

The Creative Writing MFA Handbook

Author: Tom Kealey

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2005-01-01

Total Pages: 230

ISBN-13: 9780826418432

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Guides prospective graduate students through the difficult process of researching, applying to, and choosing graduate schools in creative writing. This handbook includes special sections about Low-Residency writing programs, PhD programs, publishing in literary journals, and workshop and teaching advice.


The Creative Writing Handbook

The Creative Writing Handbook

Author: John Singleton

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2000-04-02

Total Pages: 392

ISBN-13: 1350309230

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This revised and updated edition of The Creative Writing Handbook now includes new chapters on writing for stage and radio and on writing screenplays for film and television. Written by professional writers and tutors, it covers all aspects of the writing process, from drafting first thoughts to shaping them into polished and publishable work. In a series of lively and stimulating chapters, all major areas of writing are explored, from screen-writing to short fiction, from autobiography to experimental prose. The Handbook offers new and experienced writers a whole range of creative ideas, sound advice and open-ended tasks for exploring experience, mastering technique and thereby releasing the full potential of the imagination. As most taught courses in creative writing are in workshop form, each chapter includes invaluable ideas on how to run group sessions and offer a rich fund of suggestions for developing writing beyond the workshop.


The Soul of Creative Writing

The Soul of Creative Writing

Author: Richard Goodman

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-07-05

Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13: 1351473611

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"I have a faith in language," said the poet W. S. Merwin. "It's the ultimate achievement that we as a species have evolved so far." Language is a deep ocean of living words, as varied as undersea life. It is a gift inherited by each person when he or she is born; it can be corrupted and regulated, but it cannot be owned. It is an enormous, complex, inexhaustible gift. The Soul of Creative Writing is a tribute to language and to its potentials. It explores the elements of language, style, rhythm, sound, and the choice of the right word. Richard Goodman paints an image of how language can produce a life and meaning that otherwise cannot exist in the symbols themselves.Goodman's stunningly creative collection was written after a lifetime of working and struggling with language. He collects rich examples from writers of the past and present, both great and small, and uses them to illustrate how each element of our written language can be used. The book begins with an analysis of words and how they can be used to create music on the page. Goodman uncovers the strength of words, writing about the shades of meaning that make the search for the exact word both arduous and immensely rewarding. He discusses how to find the proper title and how to find a fitting subject. He show how to create nonfiction work that is vivid and memorable through the use of the same techniques fiction writers employ.Goodman's volume is written with humor and clarity--with fascination and reverence. Writers will find it an indispensable source of creative inspiration and instruction. In Goodman's words, "reading is a tour of a writer's efforts at manipulating language to create art, to create flesh and blood and mountains, cities, homes, and gardens out of inky symbols on the page." To literary critics, this book will be a guide to understanding the tools and devices of great writing.


Handbook of Creative Writing

Handbook of Creative Writing

Author: Steven Earnshaw

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Published: 2014-04-14

Total Pages: 560

ISBN-13: 074868977X

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In this new edition 54 chapters cover the central pillars of writing creatively: the theories behind the creativity, the techniques and writing as a commercial enterprise. With contributions from over 50 poets, novelists, dramatists, publishers, editors, tutors, critics and scholars, this is the essential guide to writing and getting published. DT A 3-in-1 text with outstanding breadth of coverage on the theories, the craft & the business of creative writing DT Includes practical advice on getting published & making money from your writing New for this edition: DT Chapters on popular topics such as 'self-publishing and the rise of the indie author', 'social media', 'flash fiction', 'song lyrics', 'creative-critical hybrids' and 'collaboration in the theatre' DT New and updated exercises to help you practice your writing DT Up-to-date information on teaching, copyright, writing for the web & earning a living as a writer DT Updated Glossary of Terms


The College Handbook of Creative Writing

The College Handbook of Creative Writing

Author: Robert DeMaria

Publisher: Cengage Learning Mexico

Published: 2012-12-05

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780840030795

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Hone your creative writing skills with this best-selling, portable little handbook! Ideal for all levels of writing from introductory to advanced, THE COLLEGE HANDBOOK OF CREATIVE WRITING, Fourth Edition, covers all the necessary fundamentals for creative writing in the genres of fiction, poetry, and drama. Exploring theme, setting, characters, plot, point of view, tone, style, description, dialogue, thoughts, time, images, and sounds, the handbook includes contemporary and classic selections that serve as writing models, as well as end-of-chapter exercises and writing suggestions that help you practice fundamental writing skills. A glossary of literary terms and a bibliography complete this concise book. This edition includes updated selections, more examples, revised exercises, and a revised Chapter 14, "Writing as a Career."


The Creative Writer's Journal and Handbook

The Creative Writer's Journal and Handbook

Author: Trisha Sugarek

Publisher: CreateSpace

Published: 2014-05-29

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 9781499728750

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Much more than a journal for your creative writing, this spirited handbook provides the writer with the 'how to's' of writing. Tips, instructions and prompts to help you to hone your writing skill. Over 275 blank, lined page has writing exercises and quotes from other famous authors to inspire you.


The Young Writer's Handbook

The Young Writer's Handbook

Author: Susan Jane Tchudi

Publisher: Atheneum

Published: 1984

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13:

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Suggests helpful procedures and approaches for the beginning writer in areas of interest such as the journal, letter writing, creative writing, school reports, topics and experiments, editing, and publishing.