I took Reg out to buy some fishing bait and another fishing book and get some walking exercise today, now back to my writing for me and add illustrating for the dog, work.
Last night I bought a volume of Pam Ayers poetry, I haven't read it for a while and always loved her humorous work
The Creative Writing Coursebook Forty Authors Share Advice and Exercises for Fiction and Poetry
By Julia Bell, Andrew Motion (Foreword by)
Format:Paperback, 400 pages
Release Date: 10 August 2001
A comprehensive guide for improving your creative writing. This coursebook takes aspiring writers through three stages of practice: gathering - getting started, learning how to keep notes, making observations and using memory; shaping - looking at structure, points of view, character and setting; and finishing - being your own critic, joining workshops, finding publishers.
Throughout exercises and activities encourage writers to develop their skills. Contributions from forty authors provide a generous pool of information, experience and advice. This book should be of interest to those who are just starting to write as well as those who want some help honing work already completed. It should suit people writing for publication or just for their own pleasure, those writing on their own or writing groups.
About the Author
Julia Bell and Paul Magrs are both novelists and teachers of Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia
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