Andrew Cowan

The Art of Writing Fiction (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

An elegant insight into the personal and practical processes of writing, Andrew Cowan's The Art of Writing Fiction draws on his experience as a prize-winning novelist and his work with emerging writers at the University of East Anglia. Includes over 80 writing exercises and examples taken from dozens of novels and short stories,

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 258
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. August 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429951497
• Artikelnr.: 68530577

Autorenporträt

Andrew Cowan is Emeritus Professor of Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia. He is the author of six novels, including Pig (Sceptre, 2002) and, most recently, Your Fault (Salt, 2019), and the winner of numerous literary awards. He is also the author of the monograph Against Creative Writing (Routledge, 2023), a defence of the art of writing.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1 Writers' routines
2 Write about what you know: observational journals
3 Write about what you don't know you know: automatic writing
4 Don't tell me...
5 Write about what you used to know: remembering and place
6 Write about who you know: character
7 Voices
8 Viewpoints
9 Middles, ends, beginnings: structure
10 Making strange: defamiliarisation
11 Making clear: revision, grammar and punctuation
12 Workshopping
Appendix: Approaching agents & publishers
BibliographyIndex

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1. Writers' routines 2. Write about what you know: Observational journals 3. Write about what you don't know: Automatic writing 4. Don't tell me... 5. Write about what you used to know: Remembering and place 6. Write about who you know: Character 7. Voices 8. Viewpoints 9. Middles, ends, beginnings: Structure 10. Making strange: Defamiliarisation 11. Making clear: Revision, grammer and punctuation 12. Workshopping