The Creative Writing Coursebook · Forty Authors Share Advice and Exercises for Fiction and Poetry by Bell, Julia -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Title page Contents Acknowledgements Foreword – Andrew Motion Introduction – Julia Bell Gathering

1 Getting Started

Introduction – Julia Bell Notebooks – Paul Magrs On Keeping a Diary – Nicole Ward Jouve Clearing Some Space – Paul Magrs

2 Training the Eye

Introduction – Julia Bell Creative Writing Workshy – Ali Smith Keeping Your Eyes Open – Alicia Stubbersfield Articles of Faith – Esther Morgan What Are You Looking At? – Paul Magrs

3 Abstracts

Introduction – Julia Bell Deconstructing Beds . . . – Alison Fell Finding Out – Sara Maitland Poetry and Science – John Latham Out of the Abstract – Paul Magrs

4 Autobiography

Introduction – Paul Magrs Memory: The True Key to Real Imagining – Lesley Glaister Writing from Experience – Nell Dunn The Shared Past – Anna Garry Where You’re Coming From – Julia Bell

Shaping

5 Characterization

Introduction – Julia Bell The Things They Carry – Susan Perabo Somebody Else’s Shoes – Paul Magrs Room of Leaves – Amanda Dalton Character and Characterization – Malcolm Bradbury Real Life – Paul Magrs

6 Point of View

Introduction – Paul Magrs Eye Level – Jenny Newman Punto de Vista – Maureen Freely Writing in the First Person – Elleke Boehmer Multiple Points of View – Victor Sage Whose Story Is It Anyway? – Julia Bell

7 Setting

Introduction – Paul Magrs Exploring Home – David Almond Landscapes and Language – Graham Mort Imagining Rooms – David Craig Outside Your Front Door – Julia Bell

8 Plotting and Shaping

Introduction – Julia Bell On Narrative Structures – Patricia Duncker Plotting a Novel – Ashley Stokes Decisions, Decisions – Val Taylor Peaceful Symmetries – Carol Rumens Shapes of Things – Paul Magrs

Finishing

9 Stepping Back

Introduction – Paul Magrs Reading Yourself – David Lodge Standards in Creative Writing Teaching – Russell Celyn Jones Anxiety of Influence – Julia Bell

10 Revising

Introduction – Paul Magrs Going the Last Inch – Lindsay Clarke Redrafting Your Novel – James Friel Judith: The Making of a Poem – Vicki Feaver Feeling the Burn – Julia Bell

11 Workshops

Introduction – Julia Bell A Brief History of Workshops – Jon Cook Collective Works: Tindal Street Fiction Group – Alan Mahar Listening to Criticism – Richard Aczel Dynamics – Paul Magrs

12 Off the Page

Introduction – Julia Bell How to Cook a Book – Julian Jackson The Rise of Literary Consultancies – Rebecca Swift Agents and How to Get One – Candi Miller Final Revisions and Submission – Penny Rendall Carrying On – Paul Magrs

Conclusion

A Good Thing – Paul Magrs

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