Teach Yourself Creative Writing

by Dianne Doubtfire, Ian Burton

"Teach Yourself Creative Writing" opens a window wide onto an exciting creative landscape - your own imagination. It covers a variety of different areas, using exercises to help the reader explore and develop their own ideas. This book makes the subject easy and therefore accessible to all. A great deal has happened in the creative writing world over the last five years and this new edition includes new chapters on 'Writing from Experience', 'Magazine Short Stories', 'Creative Writing Competitions', Research and the Internet' and 'The Writer and Technology'. It also restructures existing material to make it easier for the reader to navigate around the starting with short experimental forms of writing to get the reader started, moving on to bigger projects and further to specific writing techniques.

Genres: Writing, Nonfiction

192 pages, Paperback

First published September 12, 1986

Reviews

[Carmen · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was a bit of a basic re-read for me (read this one way before Goodreads had been created) - just to get myself going with writing again. With this being a bit of an older book, some of the information is pretty basic and sometimes slightly surfacy - but is a good beginning book to read if you want to start getting into writing.

[Becky · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is very much a book for beginners, however it is very useful when stripping your writing back to basics and going from there.

[Simon · Rating 3 out of 5]

Though a good book in its time and still full of first-rate advice, it has dated because of the advances in technology since it was published. References to the Internet are now so old-fashioned the book feels obsolescent.

[Sennett · Rating 3 out of 5]

Outdated, yes, and far from everything was useful to me. Still, I just have a weakness for books on writing craft. They delight me.