Chris Sykes

The Writer's Source Book (eBook, ePUB)

Inspirational ideas for your creative writing

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Murray Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781444136609
• Artikelnr.: 39221329

Autorenporträt

Chris Sykes is a playwright, writer and poet who has written for the BBC and has had his plays performed in the West End. He also teaches creative writing at the University of Sussex and was Deputy Chair of The Writers Guild of Great Britain.

Inhaltsangabe

: 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