Creative writing
Posted by davidnewcomb on 02 Dec 2011 in Creative writing
Some while ago I was listening to Radio 4 and there was a woman plugging her new book. She was an experienced writer but hadn’t always been. Before being a writer she had a normal job. One day she signed up to do a course in Creative Writing at her local college because it looked interesting and she has never looked back.
I’m not expecting world domination but now I’m a blogger with a couple of years under my belt I thought it might be nice if I could spruce up my articles. As you may have noticed this is primarily a technical blog and wouldn’t interest almost anyone off the street. I do write about my holiday experiences and there’s some stuff about optical illusions but the rest of the articles are pretty dry unless you are specifically looking for “some snippet that only 10 people in the world need to care about“.
I’ve had the first lesson of 8 and found it fascinating. I’m not going to give away the details of the lessons as most of the pearls of wisdom came out as part of an in-class discussion as opposed to the traditional black board style of teaching.
This article will be used to glue together related articles in order.
Getting started
Secrets & Lies, The Chair, Pressure
Condensing the story, then padding it out
Start with just six words
Dialogue
Direct and indirect discourse
Beginnings and endings
Rewriting classic stories
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