Writing Fiction

<p><em>Writing Fiction</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 fiction. </p><p>Using their experience and expertise as teachers as well as authors Linda Anderson and Derek Neale guide aspiring writers through such key aspects of writing as: </p><ul> <p> </p> <li>how to stimulate creativity</li> <li>keeping a writer’s notebook</li> <li>character creation</li> <li>setting</li> <li>point of view</li> <li>structure</li> <li>showing and telling. </li> </ul><p>The volume is further updated to include never-before published interviews with successful fiction writers Andrew Cowan Stevie Davies Maggie Gee Andrew Greig and Hanif Kureishi. Concise and practical <em>Writing Fiction</em> offers an inspirational guide to the methods and techniques of authorship and is a must-read for aspiring writers.</p>