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'A unique blend of practical advice and distilled wisdom, invaluable as a guide for anyone seriously interested in a writing career - I wish I'd had it at my elbow when I started out'.
Barry Unsworth, Booker Prize winner for Sacred Hunger
Whether you're taking a course in creative writing or making your first solitary steps in fiction or poetry, this is the book you need. The Writer's Workbook provides a concise introduction to the terrain, with directions to the wider world of writing.
It offers key points of good practice, warnings about the main pitfalls and a variety of exercises to hone your skills. You'll find advice on writing short stories, poetry, novels, song lyrics, plays, TV, radio and film scripts, as well as advice on writing for children, travel writing, writing on the web, and how to get published.
Written by a team of novelists, poets and dramatists who are also experienced writing teachers, this book is all you need to get started!
Barry Unsworth, Booker Prize winner for Sacred Hunger
Whether you're taking a course in creative writing or making your first solitary steps in fiction or poetry, this is the book you need. The Writer's Workbook provides a concise introduction to the terrain, with directions to the wider world of writing.
It offers key points of good practice, warnings about the main pitfalls and a variety of exercises to hone your skills. You'll find advice on writing short stories, poetry, novels, song lyrics, plays, TV, radio and film scripts, as well as advice on writing for children, travel writing, writing on the web, and how to get published.
Written by a team of novelists, poets and dramatists who are also experienced writing teachers, this book is all you need to get started!
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A unique blend of practical advice and distilled wisdom, invaluable as a guide for anyone seriously interested in a writing career - I wish I'd had it at my elbow when I started out. (Barry Unsworth, Booker Prize winner for Sacred Hun)
Looks excellent, layout, level and directness all very strong, purposeful and student-friendly. (Peter Barry, University of Wales Aberystwyth)
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Looks excellent, layout, level and directness all very strong, purposeful and student-friendly. (Peter Barry, University of Wales Aberystwyth)
Jenny Newman is Head of the Liverpool John Moores Centre for Writing, and author of the novels Going In and Life Class.
Edmund Cusick is Head of Writing at Liverpool John Moores University, and winner of the Housman Poetry Prize.
Aileen La Tourette's poetry collection Downward Mobility is due out from Headland in 2004. She also writes fiction and radio drama, and is a lecturer in Liverpool John Moores Centre for Writing.
Edmund Cusick is Head of Writing at Liverpool John Moores University, and winner of the Housman Poetry Prize.
Aileen La Tourette's poetry collection Downward Mobility is due out from Headland in 2004. She also writes fiction and radio drama, and is a lecturer in Liverpool John Moores Centre for Writing.
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- PublisherBloomsbury Academic
- Publication date2004
- ISBN 10 0340809655
- ISBN 13 9780340809655
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number2
- Number of pages208
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