TY - BOOK AU - Anderson,Linda ED - Open University. TI - Creative writing: a workbook with readings SN - 0415372437 AV - PN181 .C74 2006 PY - 2006/// CY - Abingdon PB - Routledge in association with the Open University KW - Creative writing KW - Handbooks, manuals, etc N1 - "This publication forms part of an Open University course A215 Creative writing"-- t.p. verso; Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction; Part I - The Creative Process; 1. Stimulating creativity and imagination: What really works?; 2. Keeping a writer's notebook; 3. Writing what you know; 4. Writing what you come to know; Part 2 - Writing Fiction; 5. Character creation; 6. Setting; 7. Point of view: Trying on voices; 8. Point of view: Degrees of knowing; 9. Showing and telling; 10. Structure; 11. The story and the reader; Part 3 - Writing Poetry; 12. Drafting; 13. Line; 14. Voice; 15. Imagery; 16. Rhyme; 17. Form; 18. Theme; Part 4 - Life Writing; 19. Strating out; 20. A preface; 21. Finding a form: writing a narrative; 22. Using memory; 23. Versions of a life; 24. Life characters; Part 5 - Going Public; 25. Editing: The big changes; 26. Editing: Later stages; 27. Exploring outlets; 28. Presentation and proposal Readings; Part I - The Creative Process; 1. from 'Fires; Raymond Carver; 2. from New Grub Street, George Gissing; 3. from A Writers' Notebook, W. Somerset Maugham; 4. from Becoming a Writer, Dorothea Brande; 5. from 'A Real-Life Education; Susan Minot; 6. from Cider with Rosie, Laurie Lee; 7. 'Memory: The true key to real imagining; Lesley Glaister; 8. from Backtalk: Women writers speak out, Pat Barker; Part 2 - Writing Fiction 9. from Cal, Bernard MacLaverty; 10. from Biggest Elvis, P.F. Kluge 11. from Bodies, Jed Mercurio; 12. from The Beet Queen, Louise Erdrich; 13. from Age of Iron, J.M. Coetzee; 14. from Another World, Pat Barker; 15. 'The Doctor and the Doctor's Wife; Ernest Hemingway; 16. from Rumours of a Hurricane, Tim Lott; 17. from The Dark, John McGahern; 18. 'Girl; Jamaica Kincaid; 19. from Purple America, Rick Moody; 20. from Oxygen, Andrew Miller; 21. 'Going the Last Inch: Some thoughts on showing and telling; Lindsay Clarke; 22. 'The Artist; Patricia Highsmith; 23. 'The Dream; Anon; 24. 'The Black Cap; Katherine Mansfield; 25. 'I could see the smallest things' Raymond Carver; 26. 'The Dying Room; Georgina Hammick; 27. 'Pigeons at Daybreak; Anita Desai; 28. from 'Writing Short Stories; Flannery O'Connor; Part 3 - Writing Poetry; 29. from 'The Handless Maiden; Vicki Feaver 30. from The Triggering Town, Richard Hugo; 31. from Nothing Not Giving Messages, Edwin Morgan; 32. from The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind, Julian Jaynes; 33. from The Triggering Town, Richard Hugo; Part 4 - Life Writing; 34. from Einstein in Love: A scientific romance, Dennis Overbye; 35. from Iris: A Memoir of Iris Murdoch, Jphn Bayley; 36. from A Drinking Life: A memoir, Pete Hamill; 37. Five Poems, Elaine Feinstein; 38. from Giving up the Ghost: A memoir Hilary Mantel; 39. from Where I was From, Joan Didion; 40. from The Diary of a Young Girl, Anne Frank; 41. from Sidetracks: Explorations of a Romantic Biographer, Richard Holmes; 42. from In Ethiopia with a Mule, Dervla Murphy; 43. from 'Footsteps: Adventures of a Romantic Biographer, Richard Holmes; 44. from '"I always wanted you to admire my fasting"; or, Looking at Kafka, Philip Roth; 45. from Ake: The Years of Childhood, Wole Soyinka; 46. from Bad Blood, Lorna Sage; Part 5 - Going Public; 47. from 'Through a Tangle of Branches: Reworking the poem; Rebecca Luce-Kapler; 48. from 'Putting Coyalxauhqui Together: A Creative Process; Gloria Anzaldua; 49. from 'Redrafting and Editing; Jenny Newman; 50. from The Art of Fiction, David Lodge; 51. from Steering the Craft, Ursula K. Le Guin; 52. from English Grammar, B.A. Phythian; 53. from MHRA Style Guide; 54. from How to Publish Your Poetry, Peter Finch ER -