Discovering Creative Writing

By (author) Prof. Graeme Harper

Publication date:

12 June 2020

Publisher

Multilingual Matters

Dimensions:

198x129mm
5x8"

ISBN-13: 9781788928465

This is a book about discovering how you do creative writing. How you begin, how you structure, how your writing process works, how a work embodies movement and change, what influences you, and, ultimately, how you end. Discovering Creative Writing points you toward clues that can assist you in understanding your own creative writing as well as the creative writing of others. This book is both a practical guide and a critical examination that empowers the reader to find things out and use that information to develop and support their own creative writing. This book will enable students of creative writing at both undergraduate and postgraduate level to deepen their understanding of their practice, and will be a valuable guide and inspiration for anyone wishing to begin, continue, or improve their writing.

Harper’s refreshing focus on creative writing as activities infuses his book with value: when he writes about 'structuring' and 'ending', he means writerly actions rather than features of texts. If you, in the author’s words, 'yearn for knowledge' and 'seek understanding' of creative writing processes, this is your book.