CONTENTS

  1. Cover
  2. Title page
  3. Contents
  4. Acknowledgements
  5. Foreword • Marina Warner
  6. Introduction • Julia Bell and Paul Magrs
  7. Gathering
  8. 1 GETTING STARTED
  9. Introduction • Julia Bell
  10. Notebooks • Paul Magrs
  11. On Keeping a Diary • Nicole Ward Jouve
  12. Clearing Some Space • Paul Magrs
  13. 2 TRAINING THE EYE
  14. Introduction • Julia Bell
  15. Creative Writing Workshy • Ali Smith
  16. Keeping Your Eyes Open • Alicia Stubbersfield
  17. Articles of Faith • Esther Morgan
  18. What Are You Looking At? • Paul Magrs
  19. 3 ABSTRACTS
  20. Introduction • Julia Bell
  21. Deconstructing Beds . . . • Alison Fell
  22. Finding Out • Sara Maitland
  23. Poetry and Science • John Latham
  24. Out of the Abstract • Paul Magrs
  25. 4 AUTOBIOGRAPHY
  26. Introduction • Paul Magrs
  27. Memory • Lesley Glaister
  28. Writing from Experience • Nell Dunn
  29. The Shared Past • Anna Garry
  30. Where You’re Coming From • Julia Bell
  31. Shaping
  32. 5 CHARACTERIZATION
  33. Introduction • Julia Bell
  34. The Things They Carry • Susan Perabo
  35. Somebody Else’s Shoes • Paul Magrs
  36. Room of Leaves • Amanda Dalton
  37. Character and Characterization • Malcolm Bradbury
  38. Real Life • Paul Magrs 126
  39. 6 POINT OF VIEW
  40. Introduction • Paul Magrs
  41. Eye Level • Jenny Newman
  42. Punto de Vista • Maureen Freely
  43. Writing in the First Person • Elleke Boehmer
  44. Multiple Points of View • Victor Sage
  45. Whose Story Is It Anyway? • Julia Bell
  46. 7 SETTING
  47. Introduction • Paul Magrs
  48. Exploring Home • David Almond
  49. Landscapes and Language • Graham Mort
  50. Imagining Rooms • David Craig
  51. Outside Your Front Door • Julia Bell
  52. 8 PLOTTING AND SHAPING
  53. Introduction • Julia Bell
  54. On Narrative Structures • Patricia Duncker
  55. Plotting a Novel • Ashley Stokes
  56. Decisions, Decisions • Val Taylor
  57. Peaceful Symmetries • Carol Rumens
  58. Shapes of Things • Paul Magrs
  59. Finishing
  60. 9 STEPPING BACK
  61. Introduction • Paul Magrs
  62. Reading Yourself • David Lodge
  63. Standards in Creative Writing Teaching • Russell Celyn Jones
  64. Anxiety of Influence • Julia Bell
  65. 10 REVISING
  66. Introduction • Paul Magrs
  67. Going the Last Inch • Lindsay Clarke
  68. Redrafting Your Novel • James Friel
  69. Judith: The Making of a Poem • Vicki Feaver
  70. Feeling the Burn • Julia Bell
  71. 11 WORKSHOPS
  72. Introduction • Julia Bell
  73. A Brief History of Workshops • Jon Cook
  74. Collective Works: Tindal Street Fiction Group • Alan Mahar
  75. Listening to Criticism • Richard Aczel
  76. Dynamics • Paul Magrs
  77. 12 OFF THE PAGE
  78. Introduction • Julia Bell
  79. How to Cook a Book • Julian Jackson
  80. The Rise of Literary Consultancies • Rebecca Swift
  81. Agents and How to Get One • Candi Miller
  82. Final Revisions and Submission • Penny Rendall
  83. Carrying On • Paul Magrs
  84. 13 NEW FORMS
  85. Introduction • Paul Magrs
  86. The Physical Sensation of Being Read • Amy Liptrot
  87. Poetry that Needs to Be Heard • Keith Jarrett
  88. words in my pocket, like grains of sand • Chaz Brenchley
  89. A Series of Fortunate Fictions • Steve Cole
  90. Flash Fiction • Kit de Waal
  91. Into the Unknown • Julia Bell
  92. Conclusion
  93. A Good Thing • Paul Magrs
  94. Bibliography
  95. Biographies
  96. Copyright Page

Guide

  1. Cover
  2. Title page
  3. Contents
  4. Acknowledgements