Creative Writing For Dummies, UK Edition by Maggie Hamand
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epub | 2.05 MB | English | Isbn:9780470742914 | Author: Maggie Hamand | Year: 2010
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Unlock your creativity and choose the genre of writing that suits you best
Do you have an idea that you're burning to get down on paper? Do you want to document your travels to far-flung places, or write a few stanzas of poetry? Whether you dream of being a novelist, a travel writer, a poet, a playwright or a columnist, Creative Writing For Dummies shows you how to unlock your creativity and choose the genre of writing that suits you best. Walking you through characterisation, setting, dialogue and plot, as well as giving expert insights into both fiction and non-fiction, it's the ideal launching pad to the world of creative writing. Creative Writing For Dummies covers:
Part I: Getting started
Chapter 1: Can Everyone Write?
Chapter 2: Getting into the Write Mind
Chapter 3: Finding the Material to work with
Part II: The Elements of Creative Writing
Chapter 4: Creating Characters
Chapter 5: Discovering Dialogue
Chapter 6: Who is telling the story?
Chapter 7: Creating your own world
Chapter 8: Plotting your way
Chapter 9: Creating a Structure
Chapter 10: Rewriting and editing
Part III: Different Kinds of Fiction Writing
Chapter 11: Short stories
Chapter 12: Novels
Chapter 13: Writing for children
Chapter 14: Plays
Chapter 15: Screenplays
Chapter 16: Poetry
Part IV: Different kinds of Non-fiction writing
Chapter 17: Breaking into journalism - Writing articles/ magazine writing
Chapter 18: Writing from life and autobiography
Chapter 19: Embroidering the facts: Narrative non-fiction
Chapter 20: Exploring the world from your armchair - Travel writing
Chapter 21: Blogging – the new big thing
Part V: Finding an audience
Chapter 22: Finding editors/ publishers/ agents
Chapter 23: Becoming a professional
Part VI: Part of Tens
Chapter 24: Ten top tips for writers
Chapter 25: Ten ways to get noticed
Do you have an idea that you're burning to get down on paper? Do you want to document your travels to far-flung places, or write a few stanzas of poetry? Whether you dream of being a novelist, a travel writer, a poet, a playwright or a columnist, Creative Writing For Dummies shows you how to unlock your creativity and choose the genre of writing that suits you best. Walking you through characterisation, setting, dialogue and plot, as well as giving expert insights into both fiction and non-fiction, it's the ideal launching pad to the world of creative writing. Creative Writing For Dummies covers:
Part I: Getting started
Part II: The Elements of Creative Writing
Part III: Different Kinds of Fiction Writing
Part IV: Different kinds of Non-fiction writing
Part V: Finding an audience
Part VI: Part of Tens
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