Full Description
LEARN NEW AND INSPIRING WAYS OF LIFTING YOUR CREATIVE WRITING.
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.
ABOUT THE SERIES
The Teach Yourself Creative Writing series helps aspiring authors tell their story. Covering a range of genres from science fiction and romantic novels, to illustrated children's books and comedy, this series is packed with advice, exercises and tips for unlocking creativity and improving your writing. And because we know how daunting the blank page can be, we set up the Just Write online community at tyjustwrite, for budding authors and successful writers to connect and share.
Contents
: 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
