Have you ever wanted to write a novel or short story but didn''t know where to start? If so, this is the book for you. It''s the book for anyone, in fact, who wants to write to their full potential. Practical and jargon-free, rejecting prescriptive templates and formulae, it''s a storehouse of ideas and advice on a range of relevant subjects, from boosting self-motivation and confidence to approaching agents and publishers. Drawing on the authors'' extensive experience as successful writers and inspiring teachers, it will guide you through such essentials as the interplay of memory and imagination; plotting your story; the creation of convincing characters; the uses of description; the pleasures and pitfalls of research; and the editing process. The book''s primary aim is simple: to help its readers to become better writers.
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Format: Hardback
Weight: 560g
Dimensions: 158 x 235mm
Publication Date: 17 Mar 2022
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781316513446
About Jem PosterSarah Burton
Sarah Burton currently teaches creative writing at Cambridge University''s Institute for Continuing Education on weekend courses day schools online courses and the International Summer Programme. Until 2017 she was Course Director of ICE''s Master''s programme in Creative Writing; she now convenes ICE''s Writers'' Retreats. She teaches fiction non-fiction writing for performance and writing for children and also writes in all these genres. With Jem Poster she also regularly runs courses for the Guardian Masterclass series and the Oxford Literary Festival. She is a Senior Member of Wolfson College Cambridge. Sarah''s publications are diverse including two critically acclaimed biographies Impostors: Six Kinds of Liar (Penguin 2000) and A Double Life: a Biography of Charles and Mary Lamb (Penguin 2003; shortlisted for the Mind Book of the Year award); a children''s book The Miracle in Bethlehem: A Storyteller''s Tale (Floris Books 2008); a page-to-stage guide How to Put on a Community Play (Aurora Metro Books 2011) and a spoof The Complete and Utter History of the World By Samuel Stewart Aged 9 (Short Books 2013). Her debut novel The Strange Adventures of H was published by Legend Press in 2020. Jem Poster is Emeritus Professor of Creative Writing at Aberystwyth University. He is the author of two novels Courting Shadows (Sceptre 2002) and Rifling Paradise (Sceptre 2006) as well as a collection of poetry Brought to Light (Bloodaxe 2001) and editor of volume III in the six-volume Oxford University Press Edward Thomas: Prose Writings (2018). He has won prizes in major poetry competitions and has been Programme Advisor to (and tutor on) the Cambridge Institute of Continuing Education''s MSt in Creative Writing; he is currently Director of ICE''s International Summer Programme in Creative Writing. He is Director of Academic Programmes for the Oxford Literary Festival and with Sarah Burton a regular tutor in the Guardian Masterclass series.