The Creative Writing Coursebook Forty Authors Share Advice and Exercises for Fiction and Poetry,9780333782255

The Creative Writing Coursebook Forty Authors Share Advice and Exercises for Fiction and Poetry

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ISBN13: 9780333782255
ISBN10: 0333782259
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2001-08-01
Publisher(s): Macmillan UK
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Summary

This is the perfect book for people who are just starting to write as well as for those who want some help honing work already completed. It will suit people writing for publication or just for their own pleasure, those writing on their own or writing groups.

Author Biography

Julia Bell and Paul Magrs are both novelists and teachers of Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements ix
Foreword x
Andrew Motion
Introduction xi
Julia Bell
Gathering
Getting Started
Introduction
3(4)
Julia Bell
Notebooks
7(4)
Paul Magrs
On Keeping a Diary
11(4)
Nicole Ward Jouve
Clearing Some Space
15(5)
Paul Magrs
Training the Eye
Introduction
20(4)
Julia Bell
Creative Writing Workshy
24(4)
Ali Smith
Keeping Your Eyes Open
28(6)
Alicia Stubbersfield
Articles of Faith
34(5)
Esther Morgan
What Are You Looking At?
39(5)
Paul Magrs
Abstracts
Introduction
44(6)
Julia Bell
Deconstructing Beds . . .
50(3)
Alison Fell
Finding Out
53(6)
Sara Maitland
Poetry and Science
59(6)
John Latham
Out of the Abstract
65(5)
Paul Magrs
Autobiography
Introduction
70(5)
Paul Magrs
Memory: The True Key to Real Imagining
75(4)
Lesley Glaister
Writing from Experience
79(3)
Nell Dunn
The Shared Past
82(6)
Anna Garry
Where You're Coming From
88(7)
Julia Bell
Shaping
Characterization
Introduction
95(6)
Julia Bell
The Things They Carry
101(3)
Susan Perabo
Somebody Else's Shoes
104(6)
Paul Magrs
Room of Leaves
110(6)
Amanda Dalton
Character and Characterization
116(14)
Malcolm Bradbury
Real Life
130(5)
Paul Magrs
Point of View
Introduction
135(6)
Paul Magrs
Eye Level
141(7)
Jenny Newman
Punto de Vista
148(6)
Maureen Freely
Writing in the First Person
154(4)
Elleke Boehmer
Multiple Points of View
158(6)
Victor Sage
Whose Story Is It Anyway?
164(4)
Julia Bell
Setting
Introduction
168(6)
Paul Magrs
Exploring Home
174(3)
David Almond
Landscapes and Language
177(9)
Graham Mort
Imagining Rooms
186(5)
David Craig
Outside Your Front Door
191(4)
Julia Bell
Plotting and Shaping
Introduction
195(6)
Julia Bell
On Narrative Structures
201(6)
Patricia Duncker
Plotting a Novel
207(6)
Ashley Stokes
Decisions, Decisions
213(8)
Val Taylor
Peaceful Symmetries
221(6)
Carol Rumens
Shapes of Things
227(6)
Paul Magrs
Finishing
Stepping Back
Introduction
233(5)
Paul Magrs
Reading Yourself
238(7)
David Lodge
Standards in Creative Writing Teaching
245(3)
Russell Celyn Jones
Anxiety of Influence
248(3)
Julia Bell
Revising
Introduction
251(5)
Paul Magrs
Going the Last Inch
256(5)
Lindsay Clarke
Redrafting Your Novel
261(9)
James Friel
Judith: The Making of a Poem
270(19)
Vicki Feaver
Feeling the Burn
289(3)
Julia Bell
Workshops
Introduction
292(4)
Julia Bell
A Brief History of Workshops
296(7)
Jon Cook
Collective Works: Tindal Street Fiction Group
303(8)
Alan Mahar
Listening to Criticism
311(4)
Richard Aczel
Dynamics
315(5)
Paul Magrs
Off the Page
Introduction
320(5)
Julia Bell
How to Cook a Book
325(7)
Julian Jackson
The Rise of Literacy Consultancies
332(6)
Rebecca Swift
Agents and How to Get One
338(4)
Candi Miller
Final Revisions and Submission
342(30)
Penny Rendall
Carrying On
372(3)
Paul Magrs
Conclusion
A Good Thing
375(5)
Paul Magrs
Bibliography 380(4)
Biographies 384

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