Robert Graham, Helen Newall, Heather Leach

The Road to Somewhere (eBook, PDF)

A Creative Writing Companion

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

An inspiring, stimulating new edition of this writer's companion and practical guide to the craft of fiction, scriptwriting, poetry and more experimental forms of writing. Updated and revised throughout, the text now contains new chapters on writing for digital media, flash fiction, memoir, and taking your writing out into the world.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781137406088
• Artikelnr.: 62718686

Autorenporträt

Robert Graham is Creative Writing Subject Leader in the Contemporary Arts department of Manchester Metropolitan University, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements.- Notes on Contributors.- Introduction; Heather Leach.- PART I: GETTING GOING 1. Becoming a Writer; Heather Leach.- 2. Creativity; Heather Leach.- 3. Journals & Notebooks; Robert Graham.- 4. The Necessity of Mess; John Singleton.- 5. Visions and Dreams; Julie Armstrong.- 6. A Writer's Territory; Julie Armstrong.- 7. Reading As A Writer; Heather Leach.- 8. Writing Together: Groups and Workshops; Heather Leach.- 9. Reflection: Looking Your Words in the Face; Robert Graham and Heather Leach.- 10. Revision: Cut It Out, Put It In; Robert Graham.- PART II: ON THE ROAD 11. Layout for Fiction & Memoir; Robert Graham.- 12. Characterisation; Robert Graham.- 13. Point of View; Robert Graham.- 14. Dialogue; John Singleton.- 15. Setting; Helen Newall.- 16. Plot: Your Vehicle; Robert Graham.- 17. Immediacy: It's Showtime; Robert Graham.- 18. Style; Robert Graham.- 19. Memoir; Robert Graham.- 20. Flash Fiction; David Gaffney.- 21. Scriptwriting for Nervous Beginners; Helen Newall.- 22. Poetry; Robert Sheppard and Scott Thurston.- 23. Poetry for People Who Don't Like Poetry; Heather Leach.- 24. Digital Writing; Heather Leach and Helen Newall.- PART III: GOING WHERE? 25. Writing As Self-Invention; Julie Armstrong.- 26. Taking Your Writing Out Into The World; Robert Graham.- 27. Getting Published; John Singleton.- 28. How Not Being Published Can Change Your Life; Heather Leach.- PART IV: HELP 29. Paragraphing and Punctuation; Robert Graham.- Agony Aunt.- PART V: GOING FURTHER Writer's Bookshelf.- Writers' and Readers' Festivals.- Notes.- Index.