Creative Writing: A Workbook with Readings provides a complete creative writing course: from ways to jump-start your writing and inspire your creativity, right through to presenting your work to agents and publishers.
A Companion to Creative Writing comprehensively considers key aspects of the practice, profession and culture of creative writing in the contemporary world.
The film industry is seeking fresh screenwriting talent, but today’s writers don’t just need to be accomplished at their craft – they need to be highly creative. The Creative Screenwriter is a workbook of inspiring writing exercises to sharpen the writer’s talents.
Creative Writing Analysis is a guide to solving creative writing problems; acting as a practical introduction to progressing a creative writing project as well as an exploration of the many ways in which creative writing can be understood.
It is said that everyone has a book inside them, but setting pen to paper (or fingers to a computer keyboard!) can seem quite daunting. The Creative Writing Journal contains everything you need to get the creative juices flowing. Inside you will find: * More than 25 exercises to spark ideas and...
Against Creative Writing explores the difference between ‘writing’, which is what writers do, and Creative Writing, which is the instrumentalisation of what writers do. This book is addressed to other writers, inside or outside the academy, at undergraduate or graduate level, whether ‘creative’ or...
New Places: Shakespeare and Civic Creativity documents and analyses the different ways in which a range of innovative projects take Shakespeare out into the world beyond education and the theatre. Mixing critical reflection on the social value of Shakespeare with new creative work in different...
Depersonalization is a distressing symptom in which sufferers feel detached from their own selves and the world. Beginning with a first-hand account of the experience, this volume argues that many well-known literary texts evoke a similar psychological state.
The Creative Writer’s Mind is a book for creative writers: it sets out to cross the gap between creative writing and science, between the creative arts and cognitive research. It examines what cognitive psychology, neuroscience and literary studies can tell creative writers about the processes of...
In Your Creative Writing Masterclass you’ll find ideas, techniques and encouragement from the most admired and respected contemporary and classic authors.
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...
What kinds of critical insights are made possible only or especially via creative strategies? This volume examines how creative modes of writing might facilitate or inform new ways to critically engage with Shakespeare.
YOUR COMPLETE INTERACTIVE WORKBOOK FOR UNLOCKING YOUR WRITING TALENT. Unlock your imagination and get writing right now with original, deeply practical tips, writing challenges and guided exercises for transforming your writing with practice.
Life as Creative Constraint is the first book to focus on the extraordinary life-writing of the French experimental writing group, the Oulipo. The games played by these writers are not simply pastimes or cunning writing techniques, but modes of survival, self-examination, self-invention, and...
321 Creative Writing Prompts
All writers conduct research. For some this means poring over records and combing, archives but for many creative writers research happens in the everyday world when they scribble an observation on the subway, when they travel to get the feel for a city, or when they strike up a conversation with...
Art and writing can be the most fulfilling part of our lives. But it’s often difficult to make space for it in our day-to-day existence, especially if we’re not at the point yet where creating it is our job. Sometimes we have so many ideas it’s difficult to keep them all organized, much less...
Suitable for tutors, students and other creative writing professionals, this edition includes 54 chapters that cover the three central pillars of writing creatively: theories of creativity, the craft of writing and creative writing as a business.