Creative Writing For Dummies de Maggie Hamand

Creative Writing For Dummies

Maggie Hamand

en Limba Engleză Paperback – 25 iun 2009

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

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Cuprins

Introduction. Part I: Getting Started. Chapter 1: You and Your Writing. Chapter 2: Getting into the Write Mind. Chapter 3: Finding Material to Work With. Part II: Introducing the Elements of Creative Writing. Chapter 4: Creating Characters. Chapter 5: Discovering Dialogue. Chapter 6: Choosing a Narrator. Chapter 7: Describing Your World. Chapter 8: Plotting Your Way. Chapter 9: Creating a Structure. Chapter 10: Rewriting and Editing. Part III: Writing Fiction. Chapter 11: When Less is More: Crafting Short Stories. Chapter 12: Writing the Novel. Chapter 13: Once Upon a Time: Writing for Children. Chapter 14: Penning Plays. Chapter 15: Writing Screenplays. Chapter 16: Rhymes and Reasons: Writing Poetry. Part IV: Exploring Non-Fiction. Chapter 17: Breaking into Journalism. Chapter 18: Writing from Life. Chapter 19: Crafting Narrative Non-Fiction. Chapter 20: Travel Writing: Tales for Armchair Explorers. Chapter 21: All About Blogging. Part V: Finding an Audience. Chapter 22: Finding Professionals to Publish Your Book. Chapter 23: Becoming a Professional. Part VI: The Part of Tens. Chapter 24: Ten Top Tips for Writers. Chapter 25: Ten Ways to Get Noticed. Chapter 26: Ten Pieces of Writing to Inspire You. Index.

Descriere

Creative writing, from short stories to novels, travel writing to memoirs, is an imaginative outlet that relieves tensions and creates new worlds. This book is essential reading for all those who have aspirations to write novels, poetry, plays, travel writing and everything in between, but lack the confidence or expertise to get started.