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The Writer's Source Book

Inspirational ideas for your creative writing
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The Writer's Source Book by Chris Sykes is a practical guide designed to boost your creative writing. It offers dozens of exercises to help generate ideas, develop believably complex characters, and craft watertight plots. The book supports writers in identifying their genre and mastering story structure, providing insightful advice for overcoming challenges and refining your work.
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This book is ideal for aspiring and intermediate writers looking to build, fix, polish, or perfect their storylines. It suits those who want structured, practical support with creativity and plot development across a variety of genres.

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YOUR COMPLETE SOURCE BOOK FOR WRITING INSPIRATION.

Inspiring insights and practical exercises which will help you develop, refine and polish every aspect of your work - from plot to character and from beginning to end.

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LEARN NEW AND INSPIRING WAYS OF LIFTING YOUR CREATIVE WRITING.

Is your creative writing in need of inspiration? Do you need confidence to create watertight plots and believable characters?

The Writer's Source Book provides dozens of practical exercises to help you create storylines, craft people and generate ideas, with support and creative insight for every stage.

It will give you support in identifying your genre and crafting your work around it, and help you to understand the complexities of plot and character before beginning to create your own.

Inspired and inspiring exercises will help you master the structure of your book, story or play, while focused and innovative advice will help those who have run into trouble. This is a technical manual ideal for any writer who needs to build, fix, polish or perfect their storyline.

ABOUT THE SERIES

The Teach Yourself Creative Writing series helps aspiring authors tell their story. Covering a range of genres from science fiction and romantic novels, to illustrated children's books and comedy, this series is packed with advice, exercises and tips for unlocking creativity and improving your writing. And because we know how daunting the blank page can be, we set up the Just Write online community at tyjustwrite, for budding authors and successful writers to connect and share.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781473688476

Publisher: John Murray Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 21 February 2019

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Teach Yourself

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 22.0mm

Width: 134.0mm

Height: 214.0mm

Weight: 227g

Pages: 224

About the Author

Chris Sykes is a playwright, writer and poet who has written for the BBC and has had his plays performed in the West End. He also teaches creative writing at the University of Sussex and was Deputy Chair of The Writers Guild of Great Britain.

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