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Writer's Source Book: Inspirational ideas for your creative writing [Pehme köide]

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  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 208 pages, kõrgus x laius x paksus: 197x131x14 mm, kaal: 176 g, None
  • Ilmumisaeg: 30-Sep-2011
  • Kirjastus: Teach Yourself
  • ISBN-10: 1444135910
  • ISBN-13: 9781444135916
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  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 208 pages, kõrgus x laius x paksus: 197x131x14 mm, kaal: 176 g, None
  • Ilmumisaeg: 30-Sep-2011
  • Kirjastus: Teach Yourself
  • ISBN-10: 1444135910
  • ISBN-13: 9781444135916
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LEARN NEW AND INSPIRING WAYS OF LIFTING YOUR CREATIVE WRITING.

Is your creative writing in need of inspiration? Do you need confidence to create watertight plots and believable characters?

The Writer's Source Book provides dozens of practical exercises to help you create storylines, craft people and generate ideas, with support and creative insight for every stage.

It will give you support in identifying your genre and crafting your work around it, and help you to understand the complexities of plot and character before beginning to create your own.

Inspired and inspiring exercises will help you master the structure of your book, story or play, while focused and innovative advise will help those who have run into trouble. This is a technical manual ideal for any writer who needs to build, fix, polish or perfect their storyline.



ABOUT THE SERIES The Teach Yourself Creative Writing series helps aspiring authors tell their story. Covering a range of genres from science fiction and romantic novels, to illustrated children's books and comedy, this series is packed with advice, exercises and tips for unlocking creativity and improving your writing. And because we know how daunting the blank page can be, we set up the Just Write online community at tyjustwrite, for budding authors and successful writers to connect and share.

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Inspiring insights and practical exercises which will help you develop, refine and polish every aspect of your work - from plot to character and from beginning to end.
Meet the author vii
In one minute viii
1 Starting at chapter one
1(11)
Reading and watching
1(1)
Targeting the reader - how and why?
2(2)
Games for characters
4(5)
The creative bubble
9(3)
2 Where characters come from
12(18)
Simple exercises to find characters
12(6)
A few character types
18(6)
Finding characters from newspaper stories
24(1)
Bringing characters to life
25(5)
3 Strategies for improving your writing
30(14)
Working with outlines
30(2)
How to put up scaffolding to build a piece of writing
32(1)
Polishing a piece of writing
33(5)
Making your writing concrete - avoid empty words
38(6)
4 Inside out or outside in
44(18)
Creating characters from inside out or outside in
44(3)
Creating characters from outside in
47(6)
Flat and round characters
53(9)
5 What if?
62(12)
Further exercises in creating characters from outside in
62(5)
`Wallet-litter'
67(3)
`What if' questions - the importance of asking `What if?'
70(4)
6 Surface appearance and reality
74(16)
Surface appearance and reality in characters and stories
74(2)
Creating memorable and enduring characters
76(6)
Creating characters from inside out
82(3)
Powerful character drives
85(5)
7 Character and setting
90(17)
Creating character through setting
90(3)
Revealing inner life through place
93(3)
Objects and setting
96(4)
Places into plot - a tale of two settings
100(7)
8 Monologue, dialogue and action
107(21)
Writing monologues for your characters
107(2)
How dialogue characterizes people
109(4)
The surface world of dialogue
113(9)
How to `novelize' a script
122(6)
9 Character and viewpoint
128(17)
Who will tell the story?
128(3)
Finding the right voice
131(10)
The unreliable narrator
141(4)
10 Story concepts
145(19)
A common way to structure a piece of writing
145(3)
How many plots are there?
148(8)
The importance of secondary characters
156(3)
The dynamic relationship of character and plot
159(5)
11 Genre and plot
164(14)
Learning from other writers
164(6)
The demands of genre
170(1)
How to let characters go
171(2)
Letting go of your writing
173(5)
12 A few final words - further work
178(4)
Writing in and out of your comfort zone
178(1)
Revision
179(3)
Appendix one 182(6)
Appendix two 188(1)
Taking it further 189(1)
Index 190
Chris Sykes is a writer, poet and scriptwriter. He teaches creative writing at Oxford University, the City Literary Institute, and the University of Sussex. He has written and extensively published poetry, is a former BBC scriptwriter, and has written and directed plays in the West End and elsewhere. He is a former Deputy Chair of the Writers Guild of Great Britain.