Success
with
Creative Writing

 

 

From the author:
Welcome to my easy-to-read book of creative writing tips and exercises. I hope you will browse through and find useful and exciting techniques that you can apply immediately to your own work. From my long involvement with teaching creative writing I know that it is best to approach the subject in stages, and to develop at your own pace, discovering your strengths and interests as you proceed. I know you will enjoy finding out how to write poems, stories, radio dramas and articles and may even feel inspired to submit them for publication. I encourage you to take your work as far as you can, to have faith in your own expression, and to delight in the power of the written word!

The book has been written to allow you to dip into the different sections as you need, and to quickly find the information that you're looking for. Of course, it's just as good to sit down with and go through each section, learning about each topic, then trying your own writing by following each set of exercises.

Included in the book you will find:
 

 

Introduction


Section 1: Approaches to Poetry

1.1 Rhyme - What it is and How to use it
1.2 Non-rhyming Poetry
1.3 Metre - What Makes a Poem Tick!
1.4 Some Easy Tricks of the Trade!
1.5 Some Important Tricks of the Trade!
1.6 Finding a Subject Everywhere You Look!
1.7 Some of the Many Different Poetic Forms
1.8 Looking Closer - the Haiku
1.9 Looking Closer - Shape-Poems
1.10 Looking Closer - Object Poems
1.11 Getting Your Poetry Noticed
1.12 Prepare to Submit!

Section 2: The Novel - Approaches to Novel Writing

2.1 How the Novel was Born
2.2 Showing and Telling
2.3 Characterisation
2.4 Plot and Premise
2.5 Writing Dialogue
2.6 Point of View
2.7 Researching your Material
2.8 Imagery in Prose
2.9 Writing from Experience
2.10 Editing Your Work
2.11 Writing Style
2.12 Contacting Agents and Publishers

Section 3: Approaches to Journalism

3.1 Newspapers Today
3.2 Tabloid and Broadsheets
3.3 House-Style
3.4 Feature Writing
3.5 Writing for Specialist Magazines
3.6 Women's Magazine Stories
3.7 Travel Writing
3.8 Think-pieces
3.9 Writing Reviews
3.10 The Free-lance Life
3.11 Vox-Pops
3.12 Libel and Legalities

Section 4: Radio Drama

4.1 The Magic of Radio
4.2 The Challenge of Radio Drama
4.3 A Surprisingly Important Element of Radio Drama
4.4 How to Start to Write Your Radio Play
4.5 The Structure of a Radio Play
4.6 Dialogue in Radio Drama
4.7 Writing a Monologue for Radio
4.8 Reviewing a Radio Play
4.9 Finding Ideas for a Radio Play
4.10 Laying out the Script
4.11 Other Forms of Radio Drama
4.12 Commissioning a Radio Play

Section 5: Approaches to Writing Short Stories

5.1 How the Short Story Differs From the Novel
5.2 Formula Stories v. Literary Stories
5.3 What a Short Story Is
5.4 Setting in a Short Story
5.5 More About Your Notebook
5.6 Plot
5.7 Theme
5.8 Dramatic Dialogue
5.9 Good Short Story Writing Style
5.10 The Layout of Your Story
5.11 Getting Your Short Stories Out There
5.12 Writing Short Stories for Magazines

  

Notes:
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