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The creative writing coursebook : forty-four authors share advice and exercises for fiction and poetry / edited by Julia Bell and Paul Magrs.

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Macmillan, 2019.

Creative writing.

Authorship -- Technique.

9781509868278 (pbk.)

Updated version.

xviii, 430 p. ; 21 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 409-417).

Gathering -- Getting started -- Training the eye -- Abstracts -- Autobiography -- Shaping -- Characterization -- Point of view -- Setting -- Plotting and shaping -- Finishing -- Stepping back -- Revising -- Workshops -- Off the page -- New forms -- Conclusion.

"A fully updated comprehensive guide for improving and practicing your creative writing. The Creative Writing Coursebook, edited by Julia Bell and Paul Magrs, takes aspiring writers through three stages of essential practice: Gathering getting started, learning how to keep notes, making observations and using memory; Shaping looking at structure, point of view, character and setting; and Finishing being your own critic, joining workshops and finding publishers. Fully updated and including a foreword by Marina Warner and contributions from forty-four authors such as Kit de Waal and Amy Liptrot, 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. Filled with a wealth of exercises and activities, it will inspire budding writers to develop and hone their skills. Whether writing for publication, in a group or just for pleasure this comprehensive guide is for anyone who is ready to put pen to paper."

Bell, Julia, 1971-

Magrs, Paul, 1969-

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