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A Companion to

Creative Writing

Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture

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Edited by Graeme Harper

A C O M P A N I O N T O

C REATIVE

W RITING

ED I T ED BY

GRAEME HARPER

This edition irst published 2013

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

A companion to creative writing / Edited by Graeme Harper.

pages cm

Includes index.

ISBN 978-0-470-65693-8 (cloth)

1. Creative writing–Handbooks, manuals, etc. 2. Authorship–Handbooks, manuals, etc.

3. English language–Rhetoric–Handbooks, manuals, etc. 4. English language–Composition and

exercises–Handbooks, manuals, etc.

I. Harper, Graeme, editor of compilation.

PE1408.C54427 2013

808'.042–dc23

2013006310

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1 2013

Contents

Notes on Contributors

Foreword by Sir Andrew Motion

xiii

Introduction

Graeme Harper

Part I Creative Writing

1 TheArchitectureofStory

Lorraine M. López

2 WritingCreativeNoniction

Bronwyn T. Williams

3 WritingPoetry

Nigel McLoughlin

4 WritingforChildrenandYoungAdults

Kathleen Ahrens

5 Writeon!PracticalStrategiesforDevelopingPlaywriting

Peter Billingham

6 WritingforSound/Radio

Steve May

7 WritingtheScreenplay

Craig Batty

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