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The Creative Writing Coursebook: 40 Authors Share Advice and Exercises for Fiction and Poetry Paperback – December 1, 2019

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• Print length 416 pages
• Language English
• Publisher Macmillan UK
• Publication date December 1, 2019
• Dimensions 1.34 x 5.83 x 8.19 inches
• ISBN-10 1509868275
• ISBN-13 978-1509868278
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• Language ‏ : ‎ English
• Paperback ‏ : ‎ 416 pages
• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1509868275
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1509868278
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• Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 1.34 x 5.83 x 8.19 inches
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• Print length 448 pages
• Language English
• Publisher Macmillan
• Publication date 22 Aug. 2019
• Reading age 18 years and up
• Dimensions 3.4 x 14.8 x 20.8 cm
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• Language ‏ : ‎ English
• Paperback ‏ : ‎ 448 pages
• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1509868275
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1509868278
• Reading age ‏ : ‎ 18 years and up
• Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 3.4 x 14.8 x 20.8 cm
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The Creative Writing Coursebook: Forty Authors Share Advice and Exercises for Fiction and Poetry Kindle Edition

A fully updated comprehensive guide for improving and practicing your creative writing, including contributions from Ali Smith and Kit de Waal The Creative Writing Coursebook , edited by Julia Bell and Paul Magrs, takes aspiring writers through three stages of essential practice: Gathering – getting started, learning how to keep notes, making observations and using memory; Shaping – looking at structure, point of view, character and setting; and Finishing – being your own critic, joining workshops and finding publishers. Fully updated and including a foreword by Marina Warner and contributions from forty-four authors such as Kit de Waal and Amy Liptrot, this is the perfect book for people who are just starting to write as well as for those who want some help honing work already completed. Filled with a wealth of exercises and activities, it will inspire budding writers to develop and hone their skills. Whether writing for publication, in a group or just for pleasure this comprehensive guide is for anyone who is ready to put pen to paper.

• Print length 449 pages
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• Publisher Macmillan
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