Routledge Creative Writing Coursebook, The 2nd Ed.

Description:
This step-by-step, practical guide to the process of creative writing provides readers with a comprehensive course in its art and skill. With genre-based chapters, such as life writing, novels and short stories, poetry, fiction for children and screenwriting, it is an indispensable guide to writing successfully. 'The Routledge Creative Writing Coursebook': shows new writers how to get started and suggests useful writing habits; encourages experimentation and creativity; stimulates critical awareness through discussion of literary theory and a wide range of illustrative texts; approaches writing as a skill, as well as an art form; is packed with individual and group exercises; and offers invaluable tips on the revision and editing processes. Featuring practical suggestions for developing and improving your writing, 'The Routledge Creative Writing Coursebook' is an ideal course text for students and an invaluable guide to self-study.

Table of Contents:
Preface Acknowledgements Chapter One- Writing as Art Four Features of Writing as art. Voice -- dialect and diversity, deception and evasion, finding a voice, voices under pressure, orality and literacy; World -- building a world, public and private worlds, the use of imagination. Image -- words as images, image-making. Story -- and performance, shaping time, the story world. Writing: getting started, useful writing habits. Suggestions for writing. Revision and editing. General advice. Chapter Two -- Personal Narrative The story of the self; focussing on your writing; memoir; travel; the persona; and collective. Summary of ideas. Suggestions for writing. Revising and editing personal narrative. Chapter Three -- Poetry Reading and listening to poetry; acts of attention; transmitters; convergence; dramatisation; poetry and story; personae; influence of surroundings; poetic form, structure and style. Summary. Suggestions for writing. Revising and editing poems. Chapter Four -- Fiction The story of modern fiction; realism as topic and technique; Where, When and Who; extreme realism; magic realism; experiments in fiction; short stories; camera perspective; narrators; character rhythm; dialogue; delay and suspense; foregrounding. Questions and summary. Suggestions for writing. Revising and editing fiction. Chapter Five -- Fiction for Children Worlds and voices; crossover fiction; reading for pleasure; convincing worlds; counters; the child narrator; children and power; magic and reality; fiction as record. Questions and summary. Suggestions for writing. Revising and editing fiction for children. Chapter Six -- Drama Drama and consequence; drama as ritual; action motifs; Film- popular film narrative; short fiction films; radio; theatre-experience of theatre; status transactions; illusionist and non-illusionist theatre; story theatre. Discussion and workshop. Suggestions for writing. Revising and editing drama scripts. Glossary References and quotations Bibliography Index