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Introduction | |
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The Creative Process | |
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Stimulating creativity and imagination: What really works? | |
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Keeping a writer's notebook | |
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Writing what you know | |
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Writing what you come to know | |
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Writing Fiction | |
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Character creation | |
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Setting | |
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Point of view: Trying on voices | |
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Point of view: Degrees of knowing | |
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Showing and telling | |
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Structure | |
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The story and the reader | |
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Writing Poetry | |
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Drafting | |
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Line | |
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Voice | |
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Imagery | |
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Rhyme | |
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Form | |
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Theme | |
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Life Writing | |
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Strating out | |
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A preface | |
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Finding a form: writing a narrative | |
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Using memory | |
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Versions of a life | |
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Life characters | |
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Going Public | |
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Editing: The big changes | |
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Editing: Later stages | |
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Exploring outlets | |
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Presentation and proposal | |
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Readings | |
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The Creative Process | |
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from 'Fires' | |
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from New Grub Street | |
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from A Writers' Notebook | |
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from Becoming a Writer | |
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from 'A Real-Life Education' | |
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from Cider with Rosie | |
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'Memory: The true key to real imagining' | |
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from Backtalk: Women writers speak out | |
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Writing Fiction | |
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from Cal | |
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from Biggest Elvis | |
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from Bodies | |
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from The Beet Queen | |
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from Age of Iron | |
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from Another World | |
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'The Doctor and the Doctor's Wife' | |
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from Rumours of a Hurricane | |
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from The Dark | |
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'Girl' | |
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from Purple America | |
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from Oxygen | |
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'Going the Last Inch: Some thoughts on showing and telling' | |
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'The Artist' | |
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'The Dream' | |
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'The Black Cap' | |
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'I could see the smallest things' | |
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'The Dying Room' | |
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'Pigeons at Daybreak' | |
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from 'Writing Short Stories' | |
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Writing Poetry | |
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from 'The Handless Maiden' | |
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from The Triggering Town, | |
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from Nothing Not Giving Messages | |
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from The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind | |
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from The Triggering Town | |
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Life Writing | |
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from Einstein in Love: A scientific romance | |
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from Iris: A Memoir of Iris Murdoch | |
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from A Drinking Life: A memoir | |
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Five Poems | |
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from Giving up the Ghost: A memoir | |
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from Where I was From | |
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from The Diary of a Young Girl | |
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from Sidetracks: Explorations of a Romantic Biographer | |
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from In Ethiopia with a Mule | |
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from 'Footsteps: Adventures of a Romantic Biographer | |
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from '"I always wanted you to admire my fasting"; or, Looking at Kafka | |
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from Ake: The Years of Childhood | |
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from Bad Blood | |
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Going Public | |
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from 'Through a Tangle of Branches: Reworking the poem' | |
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from 'Putting Coyalxauhqui Together: A Creative Process' | |
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from 'Redrafting and Editing' | |
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from The Art of Fiction | |
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from Steering the Craft | |
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from English Grammar | |
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from MHRA Style Guide | |
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from How to Publish Your Poetry | |
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from Inside Book Publishing | |
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