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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 tel

Table of Contents

  • : 1. What comes first: character or plot?
  • : 2. Finding characters
  • : 3. Building characters
  • : 4. Troubleshooting characters
  • : 5. Finding genre
  • : 6. Breaking down the elements of story and plot
  • : 7. What do stories want?
  • : 8. Beginnings
  • : 9. Middles
  • : 10. Endings
  • : 11. What goes wrong with a story and how to fix it?
  • : 12. Alternative story structures
  • : 13. Dialogue in stories
  • : 14. Reading as a writer

The Writers Source Book

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A Paperback / softback by Chris Sykes

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    Publisher: John Murray Press
    Publication Date: 21/02/2019
    ISBN13: 9781473688476, 978-1473688476
    ISBN10: 1473688477

    Description

    Book Synopsis

    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 tel

    Table of Contents

    • : 1. What comes first: character or plot?
    • : 2. Finding characters
    • : 3. Building characters
    • : 4. Troubleshooting characters
    • : 5. Finding genre
    • : 6. Breaking down the elements of story and plot
    • : 7. What do stories want?
    • : 8. Beginnings
    • : 9. Middles
    • : 10. Endings
    • : 11. What goes wrong with a story and how to fix it?
    • : 12. Alternative story structures
    • : 13. Dialogue in stories
    • : 14. Reading as a writer

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