Creative writing : how to unlock your imagination, develop your writing skills - and get published /
Adèle Ramet.
- 7th Edition
- Oxford : How To Books, 2007
- 180 p. ; 22 cm.
Previous ed.: 2006.
Getting started -- Writing non-fiction -- Creating fictional characters -- Setting and atmosphere -- Showing not telling -- Writing realistic dialogue -- Finding true love -- Haunting, thrilling and killing -- Writing for children -- Sending your work to a publisher.
"This book is a first-rate guide for writers who are looking for ways to improve their output. It focuses on: fiction writing and the world of genre fiction - science, romance, horror and crime ways of drawing on personal experience in order to write non-fiction articles on a wide variety of topics in a number of different styles and, writing for children which requires specialist skills that, once mastered, bring enormous satisfaction to both the writer and the reader. Crucially, there is also a chapter on presenting your work to a publisher and getting it into print"--Publisher's description.