Teach Yourself Get Started In Creative Writing

Get Started in Creative Writing is an indispensible guide to unlocking your creativity, finding your voice and choosing a genre of writing that suits you best, whether fiction or non-fiction, short stories or novels, children's books or travel writing. Teach Yourself Get Started In Creative Writing guidelines for do's and don'ts along with suggestions for crafting a distinctive style. With tips from some of the best-known writers of fiction and non-fiction, you will receive loads of helpful advice to enable you get your own work published.

NOT GOT MUCH TIME?
One, five and ten-minute introductions to key principles to get you started.

AUTHOR INSIGHTS
Lots of instant help with common problems and quick tips for success, based on the author's many years of experience.

TEST YOURSELF
Tests in the book and online to keep track of your progress.

EXTEND YOUR KNOWLEDGE
Extra online articles at www.teachyourself.com to give you a richer understanding of creative writing.

FIVE THINGS TO REMEMBER
Quick refreshers to help you remember the key facts.

TRY THIS
Innovative exercises illustrate what you've learnt and how to use it.

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SUMMARY OF CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION / 1. SO YOU WANT TO WRITE GETTING STARTED - THE PRACTICAL WAY / 2 - FINDING YOUR VOICE / 3 - HOW TO WRITE A SHORT STORY / 4 - HOW TO WRITE A POEM / 5 - SPOKEN WORD AND PERFORMANCE POETRY / 6 - HOW TO WRITE A NOVEL / 7 - WRITING FOR CHILDREN / 8 - WRITING FOR YOUNG ADULTS / 9 - WRITING SCIENCE FICTION / 10 - WRITING A GRAPHIC NOVEL / 11 - WRITING CREATIVE NON-FICTION / 12 - WRITING FROM LIFE / 13 - WRITING FROM HISTORY / 14 - TRAVEL WRITING / 15 - JOURNALISM: WRITING AN ARTICLE / 16 - WRITING FOR TELEVISION / 17- WRITING PLAYS / 18 WRITING SCREENPLAYS / 19 WRITING FOR THE INTERNET / 20 - THE POWER AND ART OF EDITING AND REVISING / 21 - FINDING AN AGENT OR GO DIRECT? / 22 GETTING POETRY READY FOR PUBLISHERS / 23 GETTING FICTION AND NON-FICTION READY FOR PUBLISHERS / 24 - SUBMITTING A PLAY / 25 SUBMITTING FOR TV AND RADIO / 26 - SUBMITTING JOURNALISM / 27 WRITER SUPPORT NETWORKS

Publisher: Teach Yourself
Publish Date: 30/04/2010
Author: Stephen May
Media Type: Paperback Book
Pages: 291
ISBN-13: 9781444103182
Language: English

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