Writing Fiction Paperback

Linda Anderson

Writing Fiction offers the novice writer engaging and creative activities, making use of insightful, relevant readings from well-known authors to illustrate the techniques presented. This volume makes use of new versions of key chapters from the recent Routledge/Open University textbook Creative Writing: A Workbook with Readings for writers who are specializing in fiction. Using their experience and expertise as teachers as well as authors, Linda Anderson and Derek Neale guide aspiring writers through such key aspects of writing as: how to stimulate creativity keeping a writer's notebook character creation setting point of view structure showing and telling. The volume is further updated to include never-before published interviews with successful fiction writers Andrew Cowan, Stevie Davies, Maggie Gee, Andrew Greig, and Hanif Kureishi. Concise and practical, Writing Fiction offers an inspirational guide to the methods and techniques of authorship and is a must-read for aspiring writers.

English

Taylor And Francis Ltd

10-Feb-09

216

Linda Anderson is an award-winning novelist and is editor of Creative Writing, A Workbook with Readings (2006, Routledge). She is Reader in Creative Writing at the Open University and a National Teaching Fellow. Derek Neale is Lecturer in Creative Writing at the Open University. He is an award-winning fiction writer and is editor of A Creative Writing Handbook (2009, A&C Black) and co-author of Life Writing (2008, Routledge).

Derek Neale

Warning: This book may make you rethink your career.--CNN "A delight."--Financial Times "Provocative."--New York Times "As beautifully written as it is profoundly prophetic... the best book on work since The Organization Man."--Tom Peters, author of In Search of Excellence