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Creative writing : how to unlock your imagination, develop your writing skills - and get published / Adèle Ramet.

By: Language: eng Publication details: Oxford : How To Books, 2007Edition: 7th EditionDescription: 180 p. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 9781845282288
  • 1845282280
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 808.3
LOC classification:
  • PN 3355 R172c 2007
Contents:
Getting started -- Writing non-fiction -- Creating fictional characters -- Setting and atmosphere -- Showing not telling -- Writing realistic dialogue -- Finding true love -- Haunting, thrilling and killing -- Writing for children -- Sending your work to a publisher.
Summary: "This book is a first-rate guide for writers who are looking for ways to improve their output. It focuses on: fiction writing and the world of genre fiction - science, romance, horror and crime ways of drawing on personal experience in order to write non-fiction articles on a wide variety of topics in a number of different styles and, writing for children which requires specialist skills that, once mastered, bring enormous satisfaction to both the writer and the reader. Crucially, there is also a chapter on presenting your work to a publisher and getting it into print"--Publisher's description.
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Previous ed.: 2006.

Getting started --
Writing non-fiction --
Creating fictional characters --
Setting and atmosphere --
Showing not telling --
Writing realistic dialogue --
Finding true love --
Haunting, thrilling and killing --
Writing for children --
Sending your work to a publisher.

"This book is a first-rate guide for writers who are looking for ways to improve their output. It focuses on: fiction writing and the world of genre fiction - science, romance, horror and crime ways of drawing on personal experience in order to write non-fiction articles on a wide variety of topics in a number of different styles and, writing for children which requires specialist skills that, once mastered, bring enormous satisfaction to both the writer and the reader. Crucially, there is also a chapter on presenting your work to a publisher and getting it into print"--Publisher's description.

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