Inside creative writing
Subtitle: interviews with contemporary writers
By: edited by Graeme Harper
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780230212176
Subjects: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Composition & Creative Writing; LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays; Creative writing; Authorship
Description: "High profile writers, including Philip Pullman, Nadine Gordimer, Kate Grenville and Robert Pinsky, talk about their writing practice and ways of working. Designed with the needs of creative writers in mind, Graeme Harper explores both practice and process, asking authors questions about subjects ranging from motivation to creativity to drafting. "--
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: Introduction; title: Beginning Creative Writing; title: Creative Writers and Others; title: Passions for Creative Writing; title: That Word 'Creative'; title: The Idea of Drafting; title: Other Creative Writers; title: Creative Work-In-Progress; title: Creative Writing Habitats; title: Knowledge: Subjects and Themes; title: Writing Craft and Skills; title: Reading and Not Writing; title: Other Practicalities; title: Exploring Creative Writing Exercises; title: Asking Another Writer a Question; title: Past, Present and Future; title: Conclusion: Inside Creative Writing; title: Further Reading; title: Index.