Writing Your Self : Transforming Personal Material Paperback / softback
by Myra Schneider, John Killick
Paperback / softback
Description
This title offers a complete resource for life writing - one of the key genres studied within creative writing. "Writing Your Self" is a comprehensive resource for anyone interested in exploring personal material in their writing.
It examines how a wide range of successful writers approach personal material and the different modes and techniques they use.
The first part of the book focuses on a wide range of universal experiences including childhood, identity, adult relationships and loss as well as more specific issues such as exile and displacement, physical and mental illness and abuse.
Throughout the book, a wide range of writers discuss their own experiences and how they have tackled this material in their writing.
Part Two offers a series of techniques and a wide range of practical exercises and examples.
Part Three discusses the writing process, moving to finished pieces of work in different genres and the question of publication.
Bringing together writers with a broad range of valuable experience, this is the definitive resource for exploring life writing and offers an exciting range of possibilities, examples and techniques for approaching personal material.
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:270 pages
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:07/11/2009
- Category:
- ISBN:9781847062529
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Information
-
Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:270 pages
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:07/11/2009
- Category:
- ISBN:9781847062529