FROM THE PUBLISHER

Whether you're a closet poet, a hopeful screenwriter, or an aspiring novelist, everyone wants to master creative writing. But in order to achieve success with these dreams, you must learn the rules of each particular format. Filled with professional advice and hundreds of tips to help you get started, The Everything Creative Writing Book pushes you to write more effectively and creatively!

The Everything Creative Writing Book, penned by Carol Whiteley (a.k.a. the "Writing Doctor"), explains in simple terms how to express your ideas correctly and with creative flair. This easy-to-follow reference teaches you the basics of good writing and how to develop a writing style. Including exercises, techniques, and dozens of samples of each form of writing, this informative book has all the ingredients necessary to turn any dedicated craftsman into a great writer.

Featuring authoritative information on:Overcoming writer's blockResearching and organizing your ideasLessons to master rhetorical devicesProfessional guidance for increasing the commercial value of your writingEffective revision techniquesPrompts to help you get started

SYNOPSIS

Offers how-to advice on the creative writing process. Separate chapters offer discussions of the different facets of writing children's books, short stories, novels, screenplays, functional and literary nonfiction, and poetry. More general chapters offer advice on getting ideas, planning, researching, organizing drafting, editing, evaluating, rhetorical devices, overcoming writer's block, working with others, and getting published. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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