Creative writing and creative writing guides

Dieses Buch liefert eine umfassende Antwort auf das uralte Rätsel, ob es nur eine kleine Anzahl von "Grundgeschichten" auf der Welt gibt.

Character drives plot.

Covering all of the major genres, The Bloomsbury Introduction to Creative Writing is a complete introductory manual for students of creative writing.

Chekhov's celebrated masterpiece is given vibrant new life in this dynamic new version by Olivier Award-winning playwright Simon Stephens.

She came to us one dawn.

More than merely a writing text, The Imaginative Argument offers writers instruction on how to use their imaginations to improve their prose.

Winner of the 2016 IWCA Outstanding Book/Major Work AwardDrawing from her decade leading Salt Lake Community Colleges Community Writing Center (CWC), Tiffany Rousculp advocates cultivating relationships within a rhetoric of respect that recognizes the abilities, contributions, and goals of all participants.

Do you want to take your fiction writing to the next level?

If you can speak and read English, you can write poetry.

Whether for high school, college or pleasure creative writing, you need to know the basic elements of the craft.

Aimed at students and educators across all levels of Higher Education, this agenda-setting book defines what screen production research is and looks like-and by doing so celebrates creative practice as an important pursuit in the contemporary academic landscape.

This book examines Uncreative Writing-the catch-all term to describe Neo-Conceptualism, Flarf and related avant-garde movements in contemporary North American poetry-against a decade of controversy.

These days, we all need the ability to argue a case effectively in writing.

First published in 1977, this book examines the short story, which is one of the most widely read of all modern genres.

This revised and updated edition of The Creative Writing Handbook now includes new chapters on writing for stage and radio and on writing screenplays for film and television.

The collection includes four theatrical works of acclaimed Italian author, Dacia Maraini, in a dual-language format (Italian/English).

Myth and Creative Writing is a unique and practical guide to the arts of creative writing.

This is the third edition of Character Development and Storytelling for Games, a standard work in the field that brings all of the teaching from the first two books up to date and tackles the new challenges of today.

Written in the form of letters to an aspiring artist, 'Letters to a Young Artist' includes Julia Cameron's hints on how to become an artist and encourage the creative flow.

Was ist das Geheimnis einer glücklichen Beziehung?

This book interrogates the problems of how and why largely unseen matter, in this case groundwater, has found limited expression in climate fiction.

Environmental writing is an increasingly popular literary genre, and a multifaceted genre at that.

How can twenty-first-century scholars and other experts engage with wider audiences beyond their peers?

Writing may be a solitary profession, but it is also one that relies on a strong sense of community.

Young adult literature holds an exceptional place in modern American popular culture.

Five stars for Tell It Slant .

The Psychology of Screenwriting is more than an interesting book on the theory and practice of screenwriting.

This essential companion offers invaluable insights and solid, practical guidance to those keen to write for TV and radio.

An all-in-one craft guide and anthology, this is the first creative writing book to find inspiration and guidance in the diverse literary traditions of Asia.

The great challenge in writing a feature-length screenplay is sustaining audience involvement from page one through 120.

A blend of memoir and scholarly review, this book explores the kinds of thinking creative writing as a distinctly practical subject makes possible within post-secondary education.

When teachers experiment, students benefit.

Adam Szymkowicz is that rarest of things: a full-time playwright.

This book explores the phenomenon of creativity and creation from a psychoanalytic point of view, focusing on understanding the psychoemotional dynamics underlying artistic creative activities, such as theatre, literature, and painting.

Advice on good writing from everybody's favorite editorial curmudgeonPersnickety, cantankerous, opinionated, entertaining, hilarious, wise.

It is often suggested that there are 'secrets' to comedy or that it is 'lightning in a bottle', but the craft of comedy writing can be taught.

Write a Bestselling Thriller: Strategies to Get Your Book Published is a step by step guide to putting together an unputdownable narrative.

Basics Film-Making: Screenwriting is the second in the Basics Film-Making series and is aimed both at students on film production courses, as well as those wishing to write a short film.

"e;Trumbo emerges from this well-rounded biography as a larger-than-life figure, not unlike the characters he scripted for the screen.

'A one-stop welcome to the world of publishing .

A new, original investigation into how screenwriting works; the practices, creative 'poetics' and texts that serve the screen idea.

LEARN HOW TO WRITE ROMANTIC FICTION WHICH TAKES THE BREATH AWAY.

Creative Writing Practice: reflections on form and process explores the craft of creative writing by illuminating the practices of writers and writer-educators.

Writing autobiography is a complicated, often fraught activity for both writer and reader.