Creative Writing For Dummies, UK Edition
Höfundur: Maggie Hamand
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Do you have an idea that youre 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, its 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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- Höfundur: Maggie Hamand
- Útgáfa:1
- Útgáfudagur: 2010-11-18
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- Format:Page Fidelity
- ISBN 13: 9781119992424
- Print ISBN: 9780470742914
- ISBN 10: 1119992427
Efnisyfirlit
- Creative Writing For Dummies
- About the Author
- Author’s Acknowledgements
- Contents at a Glance
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- About This Book
- How to Use This Book
- Foolish Assumptions
- Conventions Used in This Book
- How This Book Is Organised
- Part I: Getting Started
- Part II: Introducing the Elements of Creative Writing
- Part III: Writing Fiction
- Part IV: Exploring Non-Fiction
- Part V: Finding an Audience
- Part VI: The Part of Tens
- Icons Used in This Book
- Where to Go from Here
- Part I: Getting Started
- Chapter 1: You and Your Writing
- Writing as Well as You Can
- Examining Why You Want to Write
- Identifying the Kind of Writing You Want to Do
- Discovering Your Own Specific Talent
- Practising Your Writing
- Putting in the hours
- Reading and re-reading
- Overcoming Obstacles
- Silencing your inner critic
- Thinking creatively
- Letting the Ideas Come
- Offering Tips for New Writers
- Don’t worry about publication
- Write for yourself
- Draft, don’t edit – yet!
- Don’t write too fast
- Pace yourself
- Put aside your ego
- Playing with Words
- Making verbs stronger
- Taking out adverbs and adjectives
- Writing in different tenses
- Avoiding cliché
- Doing writing exercises
- Learning from imitation
- Developing an ear for good prose
- Chapter 2: Getting into the Write Mind
- Finding a Time to Write
- Writing in a Room of Your Own
- Clearing the kitchen table
- Retreating to the garden shed
- Tucking away in a corner
- Finding a place nearby
- Writing in cafés and libraries
- Assembling Your Writing Tools
- Avoiding Distractions
- Overcoming the Blank Page Syndrome
- Understanding the causes
- Writing your way off the blank page
- Dealing with writer’s block
- Separating Drafting and Editing
- Developing a Routine and Sticking to It
- Using a notebook
- Storing and filing ideas
- Keeping track on your computer
- Learning to Live with a Degree of Chaos
- Realising the importance of not knowing
- Taking time to develop your ideas
- Chapter 1: You and Your Writing
- Chapter 3: Finding Material to Work With
- Writing from Experience
- Realising your own wide experience
- Mining memories
- Making use of other people’s experiences
- Writing what you – and other people – know
- Engaging Emotions
- Taking a Step Back
- Trying Techniques to Transform Your Experiences
- Making use of myth and reality
- Being selective
- Jumping in time
- Transforming fact into fiction
- Writing from Experience
- Chapter 4: Creating Characters
- Defining Different Kinds of Characters
- Discovering Where Characters Come From
- Detailing Clues about Your Characters
- Portraying Personality
- Fleshing out your character’s well, flesh
- Sharing a character’s thoughts and feelings
- Letting actions speak for your characters
- Listening to how your characters talk
- Revealing Character Indirectly
- Gathering friends and enemies
- Choosing a name
- Avoiding Stereotypes and Tapping into Archetypes
- Diversifying stereotypes
- Uncovering archetypes
- Remembering that Dialogue is a Two-Way Street
- Distinguishing Voices
- Creating natural rhythm
- Constructing a voice
- Talking in Varied Situations
- Getting into he said, she said
- Speaking face to face
- Talking on the telephone
- Containing a crowd
- Creating a Dynamic
- Keeping it short
- Paying attention to place
- Revealing the Subtext
- Using Accents and Dialect
- Rendering foreign accents
- Remembering historical voices
- Laying Out Dialogue
- Defining Voices
- Focusing on first and third person
- Surprising with the second-person voice
- Finding the Right Point of View
- Going personal with first person
- Representing one character’s view
- Switching perspectives
- Being the all-seeing and all-knowing narrator
- Deciding How Close to Be to the Character
- Handling Multiple Narrators
- Recognising the Power of Description
- Signposting importance
- Noting the details
- Being authentic
- Using All the Senses
- Employing the Tools of Description
- Comparing with similes and metaphors
- Exploring symbols
- Creating a Sense of Place
- Tantalising with exotic places
- Imagining fantasy places
- Creating Mood and Suspense
- Listing the Seven Basic Plots
- Seeing the classic plots in everyday life
- Managing main plots and sub-plots
- Plotting Consciously and Unconsciously
- Thinking things through ahead of time
- Writing off the cuff
- Merging conscious and unconscious plotting
- Keeping focused
- Asking the Central Question and Including the Essential Elements
- Seeing character as plot
- Balancing plot and character
- Revealing motivation
- Handling connection and coincidence
- Delivering a punch
- Hooking Your Reader
- Creating suspense
- Foreshadowing
- Springing surprises
- Dividing Your Work into Chapters and Parts
- Creating chapters and scenes
- Using acts and scenes in plays and screenplays
- Making verses and stanzas
- Following the Three-Act Structure
- Making a good beginning
- Keeping the tension going in the middle
- Ending well
- Writing within a Timeframe
- Lining up a linear narrative
- Going linear with flashbacks
- Writing backwards
- Jumping around in time
- Leaving a gap in the narrative
- Connecting short stories
- Telling a story within a story
- Going around in circles stories
- Producing the First Draft
- Trying different techniques
- Letting it go and coming back later
- Becoming Your Own Editor
- Correcting common English errors
- Ensuring that the structure’s sound
- Finding a Trusted Reader
- Getting the right reader
- Heeding what your reader says – but not too much
- Chapter 11: When Less is More: Crafting Short Stories
- Defining the Short Story
- Writing the Short Story
- Structuring a short story
- Making every word count
- Joining stories together
- Exploring Short-Story Genres
- Finding Story Ideas
- Entering Short-Story Competitions
- Considering some competitions
- Making your story stand out from the crowd
- Finding an Outlet for Your Short Fiction
- Literary magazines
- Anthologies
- Women’s magazines
- Science fiction magazines
- Radio
- The Internet
- Growing a Story into a Novella
- Chapter 12: Writing the Novel
- Aspiring to the Literary Novel
- Considering the characteristics of the literary novel
- Exploring experimental fiction
- Writing Commercial Fiction
- Romancing the fiction
- Uncovering crime and detective fiction
- Increasing the excitement with thrillers
- Imagining science fiction and fantasy
- Embracing horror
- Trying erotic fiction
- Aspiring to the Literary Novel
- Dispelling the ‘It’s Easy to Write for Kids’ Myth
- Before Schooling Begins: Writing for the Under 5s
- Following the three ‘Rs’
- Sounding out words
- Making things come to life
- Showing coping skills
- Learning to Read Alone: Writing for 5- to 9-Year-Olds
- Captivating the Confident Reader: Age 9 to 13
- Moving Towards Adulthood: Teenagers
- Retelling Old Tales
- Crafting Comic Books
- Considering Non-Fiction for Children
- Setting Up the Dramatic Structure
- Sticking with the classic three-act structure
- Getting started
- Recognising that plays are about language
- Putting a Play Together
- Sorting Out Types of Play
- Formatting Your Script
- Seeing Theatre Spaces
- Writing for Radio
- Using sound
- Utilising music
- Tapping into Resources for Playwrights
- Playwriting competitions
- Sources for new playwrights
- Breaking Down the Stages of a Screenplay
- Starting with the synopsis
- Moving on to a treatment
- Speculating on a Screenplay
- Adapting an Existing Story
- Securing Options
- Formatting a Screenplay
- Writing for TV
- Getting Started
- Considering the Elements of Poetry
- Writing in rhyme
- Keeping rhythm or metre
- Separating poems into stanzas
- Listening to the Language of Poetry
- Looking into imagery
- Hearing sounds
- Finding a Form
- Offering prose poems
- Choosing blank verse or free verse
- Performing Poetry
- Getting Your Poetry Published
- Chapter 17: Breaking into Journalism
- Writing the Facts: News and Features
- Working through the five Ws
- Giving the story structure
- Following some rules of news writing
- Putting out Press Releases
- Penning Features
- Evaluating Reviews
- Lining up Columns
- Transcribing Interviews
- Pitching Stories
- Getting the market right
- Making contact
- Considering Radio and Television Journalism
- Regular, immediate radio
- Internet radio
- Television journalism
- Writing the Facts: News and Features
- Writing About Yourself
- Finding the Form
- Revealing misery memoirs
- Sharing letters, journals and diaries
- Inventing the autobiographical novel
- Writing About Others
- Entwining biography with autobiography
- Choosing your subject
- Researching your biography
- Considering different types of biography
- Structuring Your Book
- Exploring the World of Narrative Non-Fiction
- Writing Narrative Non-Fiction
- Research your subject
- Focus on people
- Reflect on what you know
- Involve the senses
- Add dialogue
- Create a structure
- Examining Genres within Narrative Non-Fiction
- Adventure
- Autobiography and memoir
- Biography
- Essay
- History
- Medical and scientific
- Reportage
- Travel
- True crime
- Reporting about Places: Travel Journalism
- Doing the Actual Travelling
- Finding free or cheap travel
- Finding a good destination
- Writing on the journey
- Tackling a Travel Book
- Choosing a genre
- Getting a concept
- Making Your Blog Work for You
- Choosing a format
- Finding a clear and interesting title
- Paying attention to your posts
- Avoiding pitfalls
- Setting about Blogging
- Opting for a hosted blog
- Blogging on your own website
- Making your first post
- Publicising Your Blog
- Making use of RSS feeds
- Telling your old friends and making new ones
- Using your blog to publicise you
- Chapter 22: Finding Professionals to Publish Your Book
- Getting to Know the World of Publishing
- Being absorbed in mainstream publishing
- Adding in the advantages of a smaller publisher
- Examining the selection process
- Fitting into slots and schedules
- Looking at How Publishing Houses Are Organised
- Editorial
- Publicity
- Art
- Marketing
- Production
- The sales team
- The distributor
- The rights team
- Tallying the Mathematics of Publishing
- Print runs
- Understanding trade discounts
- Being Accepted into the Publishing Process
- Finding Out About Agents
- Realising how agents work
- Approaching an agent
- Sending in your manuscript
- Getting Your Book Ready to Send Out
- Knocking your book into tip-top shape
- Consulting an editorial consultancy
- Doing It Yourself: Self-Publishing
- Vanity publishing
- Self-publishing
- Printing on demand
- Getting to Know the World of Publishing
- Joining a Writing Circle
- Attending Writing Courses
- Providing an overview
- Evaluating criticism
- Signing on for adult education courses
- Taking certificate and MA courses
- Paying for private courses
- Going on a residential course or writing holiday
- Stealing away to a writers’ retreat
- Focusing on Literary Festivals
- Attending Bookshop Readings, Events and Launches
- Getting Your First Work into Print
- Letters
- Life articles
- Literary magazines
- Anthologies of new writing
- Entering Competitions
- Chapter 24: Ten Top Tips for Writers
- Write for Yourself
- Enjoy the Journey
- Be Specific
- Show, Don’t Tell
- Read and Re-read
- Be Open to What’s Around You
- Learn from Others
- Write and Rewrite
- Accept Rejection
- Don’t Give Up
- Chapter 25: Ten Ways to Get Noticed
- Practise Your Pitch and Keep it Short
- Ignore the Opinions of Family and Friends
- Be Focused
- Perfect Your Work First
- Don’t Argue with Editors and Agents
- Be Modest
- Attend Events and Maintain Your Profile
- Network Like Mad
- Don’t Take a Rebuff Too Personally
- Stay Positive and Believe in Yourself
- Chapter 26: Ten Pieces of Writing to Inspire You
- Short Story: ‘The Dead’ from Dubliners by James Joyce
- Classic Novel: Emma by Jane Austen
- Contemporary Novel: The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
- Play: Hamlet by William Shakespeare
- Screenplay: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid by William Goldman
- Poetry: The Oxford Book of English Verse and The Oxford Book of Twentieth Century English Verse
- Journals: The Diary of Anaïs Nin (Volume One) by Anaïs Nin
- Travel Writing: In Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin
- Narrative Non-Fiction: In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
- Autobiography: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
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