Creative Writing For Dummies

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Creative Writing For Dummies by Maggie Hamand is an accessible guide designed to assist aspiring writers in honing their craft. The book provides practical advice and exercises to spark creativity, covering various writing forms from poetry to prose. It includes insights into character development, plot structure, and finding your unique voice, making it an essential resource for both beginners and experienced writers looking to enhance their skills.
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You might enjoy this guide if you're eager to harness your creativity and develop your writing skills in an engaging and accessible way. With practical tips and exercises, it offers aspiring writers valuable insights into structuring their narratives, developing characters, and overcoming writer's block. This book may appeal to you if you're seeking a supportive companion in your journey to becoming a more confident and effective writer.

Creative Writing For Dummies

Creative writing, from short stories to novels, travel writing to memoirs, is an imaginative outlet that relieves tensions and creates new worlds. This book is essential reading for all those who have aspirations to write novels, poetry, plays, travel writing and everything in between, but lack the confidence or expertise to get started.

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Unlock your creativity and choose the genre of writing that suits you best

Do you have an idea that you’re burning to get down on paper? Do you want to document your travels to far-flung places, or write a few stanzas of poetry? Whether you dream of being a novelist, a travel writer, a poet, a playwright or a columnist, Creative Writing For Dummies shows you how to unlock your creativity and choose the genre of writing that suits you best. Walking you through characterisation, setting, dialogue and plot, as well as giving expert insights into both fiction and non-fiction, it’s the ideal launching pad to the world of creative writing.

Creative Writing For Dummies covers:

Part I: Getting started

Chapter 1: Can Everyone Write?
Chapter 2: Getting into the Write Mind
Chapter 3: Finding the Material to work with

Part II: The Elements of Creative Writing

Chapter 4: Creating Characters
Chapter 5: Discovering Dialogue
Chapter 6: Who is telling the story?
Chapter 7: Creating your own world
Chapter 8: Plotting your way
Chapter 9: Creating a Structure
Chapter 10: Rewriting and editing

Part III: Different Kinds of Fiction Writing

Chapter 11: Short stories
Chapter 12: Novels
Chapter 13: Writing for children
Chapter 14: Plays
Chapter 15: Screenplays
Chapter 16: Poetry

Part IV: Different kinds of Non-fiction writing

Chapter 17: Breaking into journalism - Writing articles/magazine writing
Chapter 18: Writing from life and autobiography
Chapter 19: Embroidering the facts: Narrative non-fiction
Chapter 20: Exploring the world from your armchair - Travel writing
Chapter 21: Blogging – the new big thing

Part V: Finding an audience

Chapter 22: Finding editors/publishers/agents
Chapter 23: Becoming a professional

Part VI: Part of Tens

Chapter 24: Ten top tips for writers
Chapter 25: Ten ways to get noticed

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Creative Writing For Dummies by Maggie Hamand is praised for its practical approach to improving writing skills. Reviewers often highlight its clear structure, engaging exercises, and useful tips, making it a great resource for beginners and more experienced writers alike. The book's accessible style helps demystify the writing process.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780470742914

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 26 June 2009

Country: United States

Imprint: For Dummies

Edition: UK Edition

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 28.0mm

Width: 188.0mm

Height: 231.0mm

Weight: 522g

Pages: 384

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About the Author

Maggie Hamand is a novelist, non-fiction author and journalist. In 1998, Maggie founded the hugely successful Complete Creative Writing Course at the Groucho Club in London, and has been teaching there since: her students have included many published authors. She is the author of two novels, The Resurrection of the Body and The Rocket Man.

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