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This book is an excellent guide for writers who are starting out, or writers who are looking for ways to improve, broaden and vary their writing. It focuses on fiction and fiction genre - science, romance, horror and crime. It teaches how to create characters, set atmosphere, develop dialogue and create suspense. The book also covers non-fiction, in particular the ways to draw on personal experience to write articles on a wide variety of topics in a number of different styles. There is a chapter on writing for children, teaching the specialist skills that - once mastered - bring enormous satisfaction to both the writer and the reader. The internet's impact on the creative writer and the opportunities it presents are explored and described, and - crucially - there is also a chapter on how to present your work to a publisher and get it into print.
REVIEWS:
'This book merits a place on every writer's bookshelf 'Writers' Bulletin 'An excellent book for the beginning writer ... with plenty of hints and advice that really will improve the way you get your words down on paper.' Writers' News
AUTHOR BIOG:
Adele Ramet enjoys enormous success as a writer of short and twist-in-the-tale stories and non-fiction articles. A highly experienced tutor in creative writing with a BA in Education, she is a frequent guest speaker at writing workshops and literary festivals all over the country.
CONTENTS:
List of illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgements
1. Getting started
2. Writing non-fiction
3. Creating fictional characters
4. Setting and atmosphere
5. Showing not telling
6. Writing realistic dialogue
7. Finding true love
8. Haunting, thrilling and killing
9. Writing for children
10. Sending your work to a publisher
Glossary
Answer to assignments
Useful addresses
Useful websites
Online dictionaries
Further reading
Index.
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