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The Road to Somewhere Robert Graham

The Road to Somewhere von Robert Graham

The Road to Somewhere Robert Graham


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Zusammenfassung

The Road to Somewhere is designed to provide students with a comprehensive, lively and interesting guide to learning creative writing. It reflects on the writer's life, deals with elements of craft and explores the skills and knowledge needed to develop as a writer.

The Road to Somewhere Zusammenfassung

The Road to Somewhere: A Creative Writing Companion Robert Graham

The Road to Somewhere is designed to provide students with a comprehensive, lively and interesting guide to learning creative writing. It reflects on the writer's life, deals with elements of craft and explores the skills and knowledge needed to develop as a writer. It is written by a team of published writers, who all have wide experience of teaching Creative Writing in Higher Education.

The Road to Somewhere Bewertungen

'The idea of life as a story, and the story being a journey explains the title The Road to Somewhere. As a writer you need to keep progressing and improving, and the four people who have co-edited the book together aim to help you along that journey...If you are starting out and are feeling a little lost and lonely, here is an excellent companion.' - Richard Bell, Writing Magazine 'This comprehensive, intelligent guide approaches writing on all levels, from basics like punctuation to the trickier parts like plotting and structure. As well as nuts and bolts advice, it includes chapters on journal writing,creativity and dreams. With dozens of writing books around, this one stands out for its greater range and depth, and its eminently readable style.' - Sarah Tierney, City Life

Über Robert Graham

Robert Graham is Head of the writing course at Edge Hill College of Higher Education.
Helen Newall is a professional playwright and teaches part-time on the Drama and Writing courses at Edge Hill College of Higher Education.
Heather Leach is lecturer in the Department of Contemporary Arts, Manchester Metropolitan University.
Julie Armstrong teaches in the Department of Contemporary Arts, Manchester Metropolitan University.
John Singleton was Head of the degree in Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PART 1: GETTING GOING Becoming a Writer; H.Newall A Writer's Territory; J.Armstrong Agony Aunt: The Origin of Ideas Creativity; H.Leach The Necessity of Mess; J.Singleton The Blank Screen; J.Armstrong Agony Aunt: Diversionary Tactics Dreams and Visions; J.Armstrong Agony Aunt: I Might Fail PART 2: JOURNEY ESSENTIALS Place of Your Own: Journals& Notebooks; R.Graham Reading as a Writer; H.Leach Look Your Words in the Face: Reflection; R.Graham& H.Leach Examples of Student Reflection Research into Reflection in HE Agony Aunt: Writer's Block Writer's Workshops; H.Leach Agony Aunt: No More Ideas PART 3: KEEPING GOING Narrators: Whose Story is it Anyway? R.Graham Style: Syntax Travelling Companions: Characters; R.Graham Agony Aunt: The Trouble with Adjectives A Sense of Place: Landscape; H.Newall Basics: White Space, Page Design Style: Plain& Simple / Elaboration Your Vehicle: Plot; R.Graham Agony Aunt: Size Matters Style: Verbs (and Adverbs) Dialogue; J.Singleton Basics: Speech Marks Style: Directness It's Showtime: Immediacy; R.Graham Basics: Paragraphing The Polyphonic Spree: Quilting etc; R.Graham Agony Aunt: Scaffolding Narrative Design: Pattern, Plant& Pay-Off; R.Graham Basics: Layout Words and Images; J.Singleton Trying Something Else: Writing Poetry; R.Sheppard& S.Thurston Basics: Spelling Poetry Writing for Non-Poets; H.Leach Basics: Colons and Semi-Colons Scriptwriting; H.Newall Basics: Apostrophes Writing Play; H.Leach Take It Out, Put It In: Revision; R.Graham PART FOUR: GOING WHERE? Agony Aunt: It's Finished Getting Published; J.Singleton Agony Aunt: Almost Famous Writing As Self-Invention; J.Armstrong Not Being Published; H.Leach Going Further Writer's Websites Writer's Bookshelf Bibliography Index

Zusätzliche Informationen

GOR002888535
9781403916402
1403916403
The Road to Somewhere: A Creative Writing Companion Robert Graham
Gebraucht - Sehr Gut
Broschiert
Palgrave USA
2004-11-22
320
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