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Doing Creative Writing
Are you beginning a creative writing course? Or thinking about taking one?
Doing Creative Writing is the ideal guide to what you should expect, what will be expected of you and how you can get the most from your course.
It clearly and concisely
the contexts for creative writing courses, explaining where the subject has come from and why that matters the content, structure and delivery of the courses, helping you to understand how your course will be shaped, what you will be asked to do and why the skills you will develop, from self-discipline and time management through to the organization of ideas, 'reading as a writer' and editing possibilities beyond the course, showing how you continue to benefit from what you've learned. Drawing on years of teaching and writing experience, as well as interviews with a wide range of students, Steve May provides all the background, advice and encouragement you need to embark on a creative writing course with complete confidence and to get maximum benefit from every writing session.
Doing Creative Writing is the ideal guide to what you should expect, what will be expected of you and how you can get the most from your course.
It clearly and concisely
the contexts for creative writing courses, explaining where the subject has come from and why that matters the content, structure and delivery of the courses, helping you to understand how your course will be shaped, what you will be asked to do and why the skills you will develop, from self-discipline and time management through to the organization of ideas, 'reading as a writer' and editing possibilities beyond the course, showing how you continue to benefit from what you've learned. Drawing on years of teaching and writing experience, as well as interviews with a wide range of students, Steve May provides all the background, advice and encouragement you need to embark on a creative writing course with complete confidence and to get maximum benefit from every writing session.
- GenresNonfiction
167 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 2007
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December 9, 2010
A half-decent look in to the world of teaching and studying Creative Writing, but in terms of comparison there are other books out that that provide you with this and an awful lot more.
August 19, 2021
anyone else find this book to be super negative? insightful look into starting to study creative writing but the ending chapter full of failed writers was so depressing. also the section about "jane who self harms, we must remove our friend jane from the character she is writing" was so inappropriate. find jane help, youre a teacher?
not vibing with it but somewhat helpful i guess
not vibing with it but somewhat helpful i guess
October 13, 2010
Funny and an easy read! And a useful insight into doing a creative writing course - a must read for people who are considering it.
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