Full Description
This revised, updated and expanded new edition of The Road to Somewhere will help you to acquire the craft and disciplines needed to develop as a writer in today's world. It is ideal for anyone - student writers, writing teachers and seasoned authors - seeking practical guidance, new ideas and creative inspiration.
The Road to Somewhere: A Creative Writing Companion, second edition offers:
- New chapters on writing for digital media, flash fiction, memoir, style and taking your writing out into the world
- updated chapters on fiction, scripts, poetry, and experimental forms
- An examination of creative processes and advice on how to read as a writer
- Many practical exercises and useable course materials
- Extensive references and suggestions for further reading
- Information on how to get work published or produced, in real and virtual worlds
- Tips on how to set up and run writing workshops and groups
- A complete Agony Aunt section to help with blocks and barriers
- Guidance on the more technical aspects of writing such as layout and grammar
And, to lighten your writing journey a little, we've tried to make this second edition even wittier and smarter than the first. So whether you see yourself as a published professional or a dedicated dabbler, this is the book to take along for the ride.
Contents
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.
