Creative Writing: A Workbook with Readings 1st Edition by Jane Yeh (PDF)

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Creative Writing is a complete writing course that will jump-start your writing and guide you through your first steps towards publication.Suitable for use by students, tutors, writers’ groups or writers working alone, this book offers:a practical and inspiring section on the creative process, showing you how to stimulate your creativity and use your memory and experience in inventive waysin-depth coverage of the most popular forms of writing, in extended sections on fiction, poetry and life writing, including biography and autobiography, giving you practice in all three forms so that you might discover and develop your particular strengthsa sensible, up-to-date guide to going public, to help you to edit your work to a professional standard and to identify and approach suitable publishersa distinctive collection of exciting exercises, spread throughout the workbook to spark your imagination and increase your technical flexibility and controla substantial array of illuminating readings, bringing together extracts from contemporary and classic writings in order to demonstrate a range of techniques that you can use or adapt in your own work. Creative Writing: A Workbook with Readings presents a unique opportunity to benefit from the advice and experience of a team of published authors who have also taught successful writing courses at a wide range of institutions, helping large numbers of new writers to develop their talents as well as their abilities to evaluate and polish their work to professional standards. These institutions include Lancaster University and the University of East Anglia, renowned as consistent producers of published writers.

User’s Reviews

Editorial Reviews: Review ‘For anyone getting going as a writer (and even for those who have already made a start), this is an invaluable how-to guide, full of useful tips, mind-freeing exercises, and inspiring wisdom from established authors. A book to banish the terror of the blank page.’ – Blake Morrison, journalist, critic and acclaimed author of fiction, non-fiction and poetry, including the multi-award-winning And When Did You Last See Your Father?(Granta, 1993)’The book seems to be universally appreciated in the way it gently guides thtough practical exercises and opens out areas for discussion in the inspiring readings section. With so much well-structured and accessible content, students do not feel alone. A key advantage is that the book is available and accessible to all.’ – Jane Bluett, NATE‘For anyone getting going as a writer (and even for those who have already made a start), this is an invaluable how-to guide, full of useful tips, mind-freeing exercises, and inspiring wisdom from established authors. A book to banish the terror of the blank page.’ – Blake Morrison, journalist, critic and acclaimed author of fiction, non-fiction and poetry, including the multi-award-winning And When Did You Last See Your Father? (Granta, 1993) About the Author Linda Anderson is an award-winning novelist (To Stay Alive and Cuckoo, both published by Bodley Head) and writer of short stories, poetry, performance pieces, and critical reviews. Her work has been published in Britain, Ireland, the USA, and Australia. She has taught at Goldsmiths’ College and at Lancaster University for ten years, becoming Head of Creative Writing from 1995-2002. She has designed several successful courses including a training programme for new writing tutors and an MA in Creative Writing by distance learning. She has also worked as a producer and director for BBC Radio Drama. She has a PhD in Creative Writing.

Reviews from Amazon users which were colected at the time this book was published on the website:

⭐Got this for my daughter as an aid in her writing. She really likes it

⭐I’ve been studying writing and writing for most of my 29 years and bought this book for my grad course, and I absolutely love this book. I’ve read a few books on writing and this one will be one of my favorites. I plan on reading the entire thing when I’m done reading the sections required in the course.

⭐Love it. As a young writer I wanted something to help develop my skills while school is out, I would definitely recommend this to anyone interested in developing their own writing skills.

⭐This is one of the best course books I have ever bought. It could totally stand alone as a self-teaching guide. Every lesson is accompanied by excellent examples and very helpful activities.

⭐This book is being used as a text book in my graduate class and I absolutely LOVE it! It’s not over-the-top hard to understand or take in, but an array of creative to-dos and excellent readings that help rev up your creative engine. I’m not a poet and even the writers of poetry have so much information to offer in my non-fiction writing field. I would have bought this book no matter what! Like I said, I LOVE it!

⭐I had to buy this book for a class but honestly I am glad I did the writing assignments given are fun and got me back into the habit of writing again.

⭐This is an awesome book for writers. You learn from the best authors/publishers in the business. You also get to read readings by some of the best authors to see how their rules are executed. I highly recommend this book!

⭐Have read two chapters for class and one for myself and I ABSOLUTELY LOVE IT!!! I have read MANY books with writing exercises and they never sparked my interest, but the ones I have done so far have, in the first 3 chapters alone!!! Much more practical and gets your juices flowing. Amazing! Love it!

⭐Useful advice and exercises. Just work from this, and save the cost of OU course which is via online forums and relies on this book to a large extent.

⭐Creative Writing: A Workbook with Readings is divided into five different sections of more or less equal length: writing fiction, poetry, life writing (including biography and autobiography) and going public with your writing (including editing your work and finding publishing avenues). The final section of the book contains different readings/ samples of published/ well-known writers that illustrate the points made in the different “theoretical” sections.Basic concepts such as characterization, choice of narrative viewpoint, structure and plot, etc., are explained well in a way that makes them easy to understand, even for beginners, but the real strength of this book lies, in my opinion, in the numerous writing exercises that allow you to apply these concepts to your own writing. In addition, the exercises are “cumulative” and build on each other, which really helps to internalize the things you’ve learned. The exercises also help you to realize where your own strenghts and weaknesses as well as preferences as a writer lie.I would have given this book 5 stars (the usefulness of the writing exercises alone would warrant this), if it weren’t for the fact that it does not cover genre fiction (with the exception of one or two very short passages, it does not refer to sci-fi, romance or the detective novel, for example). Another, albeit minor, negative point relates to the weight/ size of the book. This is a very heavy/ bulky book indeed.Still, as creative writing books go, I believe that this is one of the better ones on the market due to the clarity of the explanations provided and the very useful writing prompts/ exercises.

⭐An excellent workbook. For anyone who is interested in writing – prose, poetry, non-fiction, plays, TV & film… there is a lot in this book to learn from. Read the guidance, then do the exercises. No point buying this book if you’re not prepared to engage with it fully. I used it in preparation for an MA in Creative writing and it was the perfect opportunity to get my brain in gear. I would think that A-level students would find this an amazingly helpful means of developing their writing skills for essays.

⭐Which I am currently doing. I hate the course! I can’t say I am finding the book particularly helpful, however, that could absolutely due to just not being my style of learning.

⭐I’m so thrilled that I have this terrific Open University Creative Writing text book again, as I lent it out to a neighbour when in America for a year to help with her writing.It’s what helped me pass my course and invaluable to any budding writer and a great go to for any help needed to enrich and improve yourself with a writing career.The book was in perfect condition and delivered next day. Thank you.

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