Creative Writing: A Workbook with ReadingsLinda Anderson Creative Writing is a complete writing course that will jump-start your writing and guide you through your first steps towards publication. Suitable for use by students, tutors, writers' groups or writers working alone, this book offers:
Creative Writing: A Workbook with Readings presents a unique opportunity to benefit from the advice and experience of a team of published authors who have also taught successful writing courses at a wide range of institutions, helping large numbers of new writers to develop their talents as well as their abilities to evaluate and polish their work to professional standards. These institutions include Lancaster University and the University of East Anglia, renowned as consistent producers of published writers. |
Contents
Contributors | 9 |
The creative process | 17 |
Keeping a writers notebook | 39 |
Life writing | 43 |
Writing what you know | 45 |
Writing what you come to know | 65 |
Character creation | 73 |
Setting | 87 |
Writing fiction 9 from Cal Bernard MacLaverty | 442 |
from Biggest Elvis P F Kluge | 450 |
from Bodies Jed Mercurio | 457 |
from The Beet Queen Louise Erdrich | 458 |
from Age of Iron J M Coetzee | 463 |
from Another World Pat Barker | 465 |
The Doctor and the Doctors Wife Ernest Hemingway | 467 |
from Rumours of a Hurricane Tim Lott | 471 |
Trying on voices | 105 |
Degrees of knowing | 117 |
Showing and telling | 131 |
Structure | 143 |
The story and the reader | 154 |
Writing poetry | 167 |
Drafting | 176 |
Line | 184 |
Voice | 193 |
Imagery | 211 |
Rhyme | 227 |
Form | 242 |
Theme | 256 |
Starting out | 270 |
A preface | 281 |
Finding a form writing a narrative | 294 |
Using memory | 316 |
Versions of a life | 330 |
Life characters | 343 |
The big changes | 359 |
Later stages | 372 |
Exploring outlets | 383 |
Presentation and proposal | 397 |
READINGS | 411 |
The creative process 1 from Fires Raymond Carver | 413 |
from New Grub Street George Gissing | 415 |
from A Writers Notebook W Somerset Maugham | 417 |
from Becoming a Writer Dorothea Brande | 424 |
from A RealLife Education Susan Minot | 427 |
from Cider with Rosie Laurie Lee | 429 |
The true key to real imagining Lesley Glaister | 431 |
Women writers speak out Pat Barker | 434 |
from The Dark John McGahern | 476 |
Girl Jamaica Kincaid | 477 |
from Purple America Rick Moody | 479 |
from Oxygen Andrew Miller | 483 |
Some thoughts on showing and telling Lindsay Clarke | 487 |
The Artist Patricia Highsmith | 492 |
The Dream Anon | 494 |
The Black Cap Katherine Mansfield | 496 |
could see the smallest things Raymond Carver | 501 |
The Dying Room Georgina Hammick | 505 |
Pigeons at Daybreak Anita Desai | 515 |
from Writing Short Stories Flannery OConnor | 523 |
Writing poetry 29 from The Handless Maiden Vicki Feaver | 533 |
from The Triggering Town Richard Hugo | 537 |
from Nothing Not Giving Messages Edwin Morgan | 539 |
from The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind Julian Jaynes | 541 |
from The Triggering Town Richard Hugo | 544 |
A scientific romance Dennis Overbye | 549 |
A Memoir of Iris Murdoch John Bayley | 551 |
A memoir Pete Hamill | 553 |
Five Poems Elaine Feinstein | 556 |
A memoir Hilary Mantel | 560 |
from Where I Was From Joan Didion | 567 |
from The Diary of a Young Girl Anne Frank | 572 |
Explorations of a Romantic Biographer Richard Holmes | 577 |
from In Ethiopia with a Mule Dervla Murphy | 581 |
Adventures of a Romantic Biographer Richard | 586 |
Going public | 602 |
from English Grammar B A Phythian | 615 |
from MHRA Style Guide | 630 |
from Inside Book Publishing Giles Clark | 643 |