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The writer's workbook /

The writer's workbook / edited by Jenny Newman, Edmund Cusick and Aileen La Tourette. - London : New York : Arnold ; Oxford University Press, 2000. - vi, 182 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Observation and discovery / Edmund Cusick -- Keeping a writer's journal / Jenny Newman -- The workshop / Edmund Cusick -- Reading as a writer / James Friel -- Working with myth / Edmund Cusick -- Short story writing / Jenny Newman -- Writing for screen and television / Dave Jackson -- Writing poetry / Gladys Mary Coles -- Writing for stage / Dymphna Callery -- Writing for radio / Aileen La Tourette -- Writing a novel / James Friel -- Song lyric writing / Dave Jackson -- Travel writing / Aileen La Tourette -- Writing on the web / James Friel -- Writing from research / Dymphna Callery --Redrafting and editing / Jenny Newman -- Getting published, produced or performed / Jenny Newman, Edmund Cusick and Aileen La Tourette.

Summary:
This title offers points of good practice, warnings about the main pitfalls and provides a variety of exercises to hone a writer's skills. It includes advice on writing short stories, poetry, novels, plays, TV, radio and film scripts as well as travel writing, and writing for the web.



034076001X 9780340760017 0340759992 (hbk.) 9780340759998

2001267490


Authorship.

PN147 / .W73 2000

808.02 / WRI 2000