Creative writing project: introduction
Introduction to the creative writing project. This explores the process of producing a finished piece of creative writing. The sections are organised as a course that users…
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Creative writing project: 1 Looking
Part 1 of the creative writing project. The first step towards writing well is to train ourselves to notice the world around us. It is only when we have learned to concentr…
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Creative writing project: 2 Feeling and reflecting
Part 2 of the creative writing feature. Language is never neutral, and literary language least of all. Even a simple description carries an emotional charge and implies som…
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Creative writing project: 3 Imagining
Part 3 of the creative writing project. Our imaginations will take us anywhere we can conceive of: into the past or the future, to places we have never been to and places t…
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Creative writing project: 4 Shaping
Part 4 of the creative writing project. Many pieces of writing begin as a mass of notes: ideas, words, phrases and images. These the writer expands, rewords, tweaks, adds t…
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Creative writing project: 5 Finding a form
Part 5 of the creative writing project. At various points during the writing process decisions have to be made about the form the piece will take. Will it be largely or who…
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Creative writing project: 6 Revising and polishing
Part 6 of the creative writing project. Your piece of work is starting to take shape nicely. However, there is still some way to go, some polishing to do, to bring it to th…
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Creative writing project: 7 Beyond the Museum
Part 7 of the creative writing project. Every piece of writing begins with the writer facing the unwritten page or nowadays, often, the blank computer screen. Focusing on a…
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Creative writing project reading list
Reading list to accompany the creative writing project.
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