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Whether for high school, college or pleasure creative writing, you need to know the basic elements of the craft. Creative Writing DeMYSTiFieD gives you helpful suggestions for evaluating your work for freshness and originality and offers scores of exercises, techniques, samples and websites to access more. The book introduces you to general creative writing terms and craft as well as genre specific terms and craft elements. Creative Writing DeMYSTiFieD lets you work at your own pace and provides: -An overview of the creative writing field today and its history -Insights from top writers in the creative writing subgenres -Exercises by professionals in all the subgenres -Answers to questions creative writers have -Resources for revising and finishing your work.
About the Author
I have been writing seriously since 1975 and have taught writing since 1980. I published my first book about writing (Writing in a Convertible with the Top Down) in 1991 and have continued since then writing and publishing my poetry (Sustenance: New and Selected Poems) , reviews (in Poet Lore, The Seattle Times and The World) , and articles (Writer's Digest Magazine and The Writer) , as well as producing and publishing many more books on writing, the newest entitled Writing and Publishing Personal Essays. My passion is helping those who want to break their writing out into new forms, revise effectively, generate more writing or facilitate the writing of others. In the last three decades years, I have worked with hundreds of people in colleges, universities and workshops helping them write personal essays, poetry, and writer's journals and allow writing a serious place in their lives. I've provided teacher training in WA, AZ and CA. I conceived and launched Writing It Real in 2002 as a vehicle to help others foster their best work, involve themselves in a community of people who write from personal experience, and learn to teach others how to facilitate good writing. In 2005, I developed LifeJournal for Writers with Chronicles Software. I have an undergraduate degree in English from the University of Wisconsin, an MAT in Secondary Education from Keane College and an MA in Creative Writing from the University of Washington. from
