Creative Writing : A Workbook with Readings (Paperback, 2 ed)

Contributors Introduction Part 1: The creative process 1: Stimulating creativity and imagination 2: Writing what you know 3: Writing what you come to know Part 2: Writing ?ction 4: Character 5: Setting 6: Point of view 7: Showing and telling 8: Structure and time 9: The story and your readers 10: Editing ?ction Part 3: Writing poetry 11: Introduction to poetry 12: Voice and language 13: Poetic structure 14: Rhyme and metre 15: Revising poetry Part 4: Life writing 16: Starting out 17: Finding a form 18: Using memory 19: Versions of a life 20: Life characters Part 5: Going public 21: Going public 22: Presenting your work READINGS Part 1: The creative process 1.1 from ‘Fires’ 1.2 from ‘A Real-life Education’ 2.1 ‘Death of a Naturalist’ 2.2 from ‘Netherley’ 2.3 from ‘Tomorrow is Too Far’ 2.4 ‘Memory: The True Key to Real Imagining’ 3.1‘The Captain of the 1964 Top of the Form Team’ 3.2 from Backtalk: Women Writers Speak Out Part 2: Writing ?ction 4.1 from ‘A Sheltered Woman’ 5.1 from ‘The Edge of the Shoal’ 6.1 ‘First Journeyman’ 6.2 ‘Becky Finch’ 6.3 ‘Love Silk Food’ 7.1 ‘Going the Last Inch: Some Thoughts on Showing and Telling’ 7.2 ‘The Dream’ 7.3 ‘Moonlight’ 7.4 from ‘Freddy Barrandov Checks … in?’ 7.5 from ‘Byron Francis’ 7.6 ‘I Could See the Smallest Things’ 7.7 ‘Tomorrow is Too Far’ 8.1 from The Art of Writing Fiction 8.2 ‘Pigeons at Daybreak’ 9.1 ‘Bodies’ 9.2 ‘Tattoo’ 10.1 ‘Through a Tangle of Branches: Reworking the Poem’ 10.2 from ‘Putting Coyolxauhqui Together: A Creative Process’ 10.3 from ‘Redrafting and Editing’ 10.4 from Steering the Craft Part 4: Life writing 16.1 from Long Time No See 16.2 from ‘Little Boxes’ 17.1 from The Haunting of Alma Fielding 17.2 ‘Red Riviera’ 17. 3 ‘Well done, No. 3777!’ 18.1 from Giving Up the Ghost: A Memoir 18.2 from Shame on Me: An Anatomy of Race and Belonging 18.3 from Shame on Me: An Anatomy of Race and Belonging 19.1 from The Diary of a Young Girl 19.2 ‘Darkness and Light’ 19.3 from Footsteps: Adventures of a Romantic Biographer 19.4 from ‘Time Travel on the St. Lawrence River’ 20.1 from Bad Blood 20.2 from Bedsit Disco Queen: How I Grew Up and Tried to Be a Pop Star 20.3 from Foreigners: Three English Lives Part 5: Going public 21.1 from Tips From a Publisher 21.2 ‘Considering Self-Publishing: A Guide’ 22.1 Synopsis for Dark Aemilia Glossary Acknowledgements Index