The Routledge Creative Wwriting Coursebook(2).pdf

THE ROUTLEDGE CREATIVE

WRITING COURSEBOOK

This step-by-step, practical guide to the process of creative writing provides readers with

a comprehensive course in its art and skill. With genre-based chapters, such as life

writing, novels and short stories, poetry, fiction for children and screenwriting, it is an

indispensable guide to writing successfully.

The Routledge Creative Writing Coursebook:

■ shows new writers how to get started and suggests useful writing habits

■ encourages experimentation and creativity

■ includes illustrative extracts from the work of a wide range of published writers

■ stimulates critical awareness through discussion of literary theory, and offers new

concepts and perspectives

■ approaches writing as a skill, as well as an art form

■ is packed with individual and group exercises, and invaluable advice on the revision

and editing processes

■ develops fresh insights into the practice and reception of writing as an art form.

Featuring practical suggestions for developing and improving your writing, The

Routledge Creative Writing Coursebook is an ideal course text for students and an

invaluable guide to self-study.

Paul Mills teaches creative writing at York St John College. He has held writing

fellowships at Leeds and Manchester universities and a Fulbright Teaching exchange

fellowship in the US. He is a poet and dramatist.

THE ROUTLEDGE

CREATIVEWRITING

COURSEBOOK

Paul Mills

LONDON AND NEW YORK

First published 2006 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN

Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge 29 West 35th Street, New York,

NY 10001

Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group

This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2006.

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in writing from the publishers.

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from

the British Library

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Mills, Paul, 1948- The Routledge creative

writing coursebook/Paul Mills. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-

415-31784-3—ISBN 0-415-31785-1 (pbk.) 1. English language—Rhetoric—Study and teaching.

2. Creative writing—Study and teaching. I. Title. PE1404.M56 2005 808′.02—dc22 2005012238

ISBN 0-203-49901-8 Master e-book ISBN

ISBN 0-203-60161-0 (OEB Format)

ISBN10:0-415-31785-1 (Print Edition) ISBN13:978-0-415-31785-6 (pbk)

ISBN10:0-415-31784-3 (Print Edition) ISBN13:978-0-415-31784-9 (hbk)

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