This demystifying guide to creative writing shows that successful work arises not from talent or inspiration alone but from several stages of development within a systematic strategy. Recommending an exploratory approach to writing, this book offers practical exercises that bring exceptional creative writing within reach. Each chapter is illustrated with extensive examples of student work and published writing including fiction, poetry, plays, performance, and new media.
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great for providing ideas for experimentation' (Komninos Zervos, TEXTreview)... practical and readable... a worthwhile addition to the personal library of anyone interested in what is going on around them in the world of words.' (Brook Emery, Five Bellsreview)
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Hazel Smith is a senior research fellow in the school of creative communication at the University of Canberra and founder of the creative writing program at the University of New South Wales. She is the author of Hyperscapes in the Poetry of Frank O'Hara.
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I love this book. I haven't worked through the whole of it yet, but I keep coming back to it each time I get stuck or slowed down in my writing.
The title may sound intimidating to some, but Smith breaks the exercises down into easy to manage parts and then builds them back up, providing numerous examples from both students' and published authors' writing. Her exercises are very different to the stock exercises of other writing books, great for stimulating new ideas, and she's not afraid to take issue with standard writing advice where she feels it's necessary.
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Great course book for beginners and advanced students. A book you'd browse through again and again to keep your mind sharp. I'll definitely keep this one close by.
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synoptic novel, multiple focalisations, postmodern lyric, phrase manipulation, discontinuous prose, diasporic city, phrase permutation, sonic poetry, new spinster, walk poem, recycling texts, undivided moments, sonic writing, new media work, homodiegetic narrator, hypertext fiction, linguistic experimentation, creative text, experimental poems, multimedia work, favourite motto, word pool Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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