Life Writing

<p><em>Life Writing</em> offers the novice writer engaging and creative activities, making use of insightful, relevant readings from well-known authors to illustrate the techniques presented. This volume makes use of new versions of key chapters from the recent Routledge/Open University textbook, <em>Creative Writing: A Workbook with Readings</em> for writers who are specializing in life writing. </p><p>Using their experience and expertise as teachers as well as authors, Derek Neale and Sara Haslam guide aspiring writers through such key writing skills as:</p><ul> <ul> </ul> <li>writing what you know </li> <li>investigating biography and autobiography</li> <li>using prefaces </li> <li>finding a form </li> <li>using memory</li> <li>developing characters</li> <li>using novelistic, poetic and dramatic techniques.</li> <ul> </ul> </ul><p>The volume is further updated to include never-before published interviews and conversations with successful life writers such as Jenny Diski, Robert Fraser, Richard Holmes, Michael Holroyd, Jackie Kay, Hanif Kureishi and Blake Morrison. Concise and practical, <em>Life Writing</em> offers an inspirational guide to the methods and techniques of authorship and is a must-read for aspiring writers.</p> <p>Introduction 1. Stimulating Creativity: What Really Works 2. Keeping a Writer's Notebook 3. Character Creation 4. Setting 5. Point of View: Trying on Voices 6. Point of View: Degrees of Knowing 7. Showing and Telling 8. Structure 9. The Story and The Reader</p>