Creative Writing: A Practical Guide

by Julia Casterton

Overview

This book is a practical guide to creative writing, providing advice on style and form, and help with developing work to be read or heard and how to get published. Drawing on interviews with other writers, and her own long experience as a poet and tutor, Julia Casterton examines many kinds of writing - autobiography, poetry, dialogue, short stories, writing for screen and longer fiction. The third edition includes three completely new chapters, covering preparing poetry for performance and publication, writing your own myth and how to do research. This final chapter will be based on interviews with a novelist, poet and script-writer and will provide a checklist of the stages needed to research a story, poem, novel or film.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781403945419
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	05/01/2005
Edition description:	3rd ed. 2005
Pages:	200
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

JULIA CASTERTON sometime Teacher for the City Literary Institute. She has published three collections of poetry.
JULIA CASTERTON sometime Teacher for the City Literary Institute. She has published three collections of poetry.

Table of Contents

Preface
Why Write?
The Space We Inhabit
Bringing your Descriptions to Life
Making your Characters Speak
Making a Short Story
Speaking in Different Tongues, Different Tones
Hold the Tension, Hold the Energy
Myth and Making a Narrative
Developing your Narrative
Writing Poetry
Preparing your Poems for Performance and Publication
Love Writing
Doing your Research
Writing for Yourself Alone
Reaching an Audience
Further Reading Some Useful Websites and Addresses
Index.

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From the Publisher

Julia Casterton's book lives up to its title in providing a practical handbook for the writer...this guide is undoubtedly a valuable resource.' - Bloc Online: A Place for Writers and Writing