Get Started in Creative Writing: Teach Yourself

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An indispensible guide to unlocking your creativity and finding your voice Get Started in Creative Writing will help you choose a genre of writing that suits you best, whether fiction or non-fiction, short stories or novels, children’s books or travel writing. It features 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.

Get Started in Creative Writing includes:

Chapter 1: Why write?

Chapter 2: Ideas and inspirations

Chapter 3: The feature article

Chapter 4: The short story

Chapter 5: Poetry

Chapter 6: Creative non-fiction

Chapter 7: Travel writing

Chapter 8: Blogging

Chapter 9: Writing for children

Chapter 10: Starting to write a novel Chapter 11: Setting

Chapter 12: Characterization

Chapter 13: Plotting

Chapter 14: Dialogue

Chapter 15: The difficult business of second drafts

Chapter 16: Writing stage plays

Chapter 17: Writing radio plays

Chapter 18: Screenwriting

Chapter 19: Agents and publishers

Chapter 20: Moving on

Learn effortlessly with a new easy-to-read page design and interactive features:

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 to give you a richer understanding of the subject.

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.