Creative Writing : A Workbook with Readings (Hardcover)

Introduction  Part I - The Creative Process  1. Stimulating creativity and imagination: What  really works?  2. Keeping a writer's notebook  3. Writing what you know  4. Writing what you come to know  Part 2 - Writing Fiction  5. Character creation  6. Setting  7. Point of view: Trying on voices  8. Point of view: Degrees of knowing  9.  Showing and telling  10. Structure  11. The story and the reader  Part 3 - Writing Poetry  12. Drafting  13. Line  14. Voice  15. Imagery  16. Rhyme  17. Form  18. Theme  Part 4 - Life Writing 19. Strating out  20.  A preface  21. Finding a form: writing a narrative  22. Using memory  23. Versions of a life  24. Life characters Part 5 - Going Public  25. Editing: The big changes  26. Editing: Later stages  27. Exploring outlets  28. Presentation and proposal  Readings  Part I - The Creative Process  1. from 'Fires', Raymond Carver  2. from New Grub Street, George Gissing  3. from A Writers' Notebook, W. Somerset Maugham  4. from Becoming a Writer, Dorothea Brande  5. from 'A Real-Life Education', Susan Minot  6. from Cider with Rosie, Laurie Lee  7. 'Memory: The true key to real imagining', Lesley Glaister  8. from Backtalk: Women writers speak out, Pat Barker  Part 2 - Writing Fiction  9. from Cal, Bernard MacLaverty  10. from Biggest Elvis, P.F. Kluge  11. from Bodies, Jed Mercurio  12. from The Beet Queen, Louise Erdrich  13. from Age of Iron, J.M. Coetzee  14. from Another World, Pat Barker  15. 'The Doctor and the Doctor's Wife', Ernest Hemingway  16. from Rumours of a Hurricane, Tim Lott  17. from The Dark, John McGahern  18. 'Girl', Jamaica Kincaid  19. from Purple America, Rick Moody  20. from Oxygen, Andrew Miller  21. 'Going the Last Inch: Some thoughts on showing and telling', Lindsay Clarke  22. 'The Artist', Patricia Highsmith  23. 'The Dream', Anon  24. 'The Black Cap', Katherine Mansfield  25.  'I could see the smallest things' Raymond Carver  26. 'The Dying Room', Georgina Hammick  27. 'Pigeons at Daybreak', Anita Desai  28. from 'Writing Short Stories', Flannery O'Connor  Part 3 - Writing Poetry  29. from 'The Handless Maiden', Vicki Feaver  30. from The Triggering Town, Richard Hugo  31. from Nothing Not Giving Messages, Edwin Morgan  32. from The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind, Julian Jaynes  33. from The Triggering Town, Richard Hugo  Part 4 - Life Writing  34. from Einstein in Love: A scientific romance, Dennis Overbye  35. from Iris: A Memoir of Iris Murdoch, Jphn Bayley 36. from A Drinking Life: A memoir, Pete Hamill  37. Five Poems, Elaine Feinstein  38.  from Giving up the Ghost: A memoir  Hilary Mantel  39. from Where I was From, Joan Didion  40. from The Diary of a Young Girl, Anne Frank  41. from Sidetracks: Explorations of a Romantic Biographer, Richard Holmes  42. from In Ethiopia with a Mule, Dervla Murphy  43. from 'Footsteps: Adventures of a Romantic Biographer, Richard Holmes  44. from '"I always wanted you to admire my fasting"; or, Looking at Kafka, Philip Roth  45. from Ake: The Years of Childhood, Wole Soyinka  46. from Bad Blood, Lorna Sage  Part 5 - Going Public  47. from 'Through a Tangle of Branches: Reworking the poem', Rebecca Luce-Kapler  48. from 'Putting Coyalxauhqui Together: A Creative Process', Gloria Anzaldua  49. from 'Redrafting and Editing', Jenny Newman  50. from The Art of Fiction, David Lodge  51. from Steering the Craft, Ursula K. Le Guin  52. from English Grammar, B.A. Phythian  53. from MHRA Style Guide  54. from How to Publish Your Poetry, Peter Finch  55. from Inside Book Publishing, Giles Clark