Teach Yourself the Writer's Source Book

Author(s): Chris Sykes

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 advise 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.


Product Information

Chris Sykes is a writer, poet and scriptwriter. He teaches creative writing at Oxford University, the City Literary Institute, and the University of Sussex. He has written and extensively published poetry, is a former BBC scriptwriter, and has written and directed plays in the West End and elsewhere. He is a former Deputy Chair of the Writers Guild of Great Britain.

General Fields

  • : 9781444135916
  • : Teach Yourself
  • : Teach Yourself
  • : 0.18
  • : 31 August 2011
  • : 197mm X 131mm X 14mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : 01 December 2011
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Chris Sykes
  • : Paperback
  • : 1
  • : 808.02
  • : 208