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Books > Language & Literature > Literary & linguistic reference works > Creative writing & creative writing guides

The Creative Writer's Mind (Paperback): Nigel Krauth The Creative Writer's Mind (Paperback)
Nigel Krauth
R2,032 R919 Discovery Miles 9 190 Save R1,113 (55%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

What goes on in creative writers' heads when they write? What can cognitive psychology, neuroscience, literary studies and previous research in creative writing studies tell creative writers about the processes of their writing mind? Creative writers have for centuries undertaken cognitive research. Some described cognition in vivid exegetical essays, but most investigated the mind in creative writing itself, in descriptions of the thinking of characters in fiction, poetry and plays. The inner voicings and inner visualising revealed in Greek choruses, in soliloquies, in stream-of-consciousness narratives are creative writers' 'research results' from studying their own cognition, and the thinking of others. The Creative Writer's Mind is a book for creative writers: it sets out to cross the gap between creative writing and science, between the creative arts and cognitive research.

Muse of Fire - Reflections on Theatre (Hardcover): Terrence McNally Muse of Fire - Reflections on Theatre (Hardcover)
Terrence McNally; Edited by Raymond-Jean Frontain
R2,854 Discovery Miles 28 540 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Acclaimed playwright Terrence McNally's works are characterized by such diversity that critics have sometimes had difficulty identifying the pattern in his carpet. To redress this problem, In Muse of Fire, Raymond-Jean Frontain has collected McNally's most illuminating meditations on the need of the playwright to first change hearts in order to change minds and thereby foster a more compassionate community. When read together, these various meditations demonstrate the profound ways in which McNally himself functioned as a member of the theater community-as strikingly original dramatic voice, as generous collaborator, and even as the author of eloquent memorials. These pieces were originally written to be delivered on both highly formal occasions (academic commencement exercises, award ceremonies, memorial services) and as off-the-cuff comments at highly informal gatherings, like a playwriting workshop at the New School. They reveal a man who saw theater not as the vehicle for abstract ideas or the platform for political statements, but as the exercise of our shared humanity. "Theatre is collaborative, but life is collaborative," McNally says. "Art is important to remind us that we're not alone, and this is a wonderful world and we can make it more wonderful by fully embracing each other. [. . .] I don't know why it's so hard to remind ourselves sometimes, but thank God we've had great artists who don't let us forget. And thank the audiences who support them because I think that those artists' true mission has been to bring the barriers down, break them down; not build walls, but tear them down."

Our World 3: Combo Split A (Paperback, 2nd edition): Rob Sved Our World 3: Combo Split A (Paperback, 2nd edition)
Rob Sved
R816 Discovery Miles 8 160 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Combo Split editions include half of the Student's Book content and corresponding sections of the Workbook, with online access to student resources.

The Happy Writing Book - Discover the Positive Power of Creative Writing (Paperback): Elise Valmorbida The Happy Writing Book - Discover the Positive Power of Creative Writing (Paperback)
Elise Valmorbida
R442 R405 Discovery Miles 4 050 Save R37 (8%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

'There are many guides to good writing but none as valuable as this.' Oliver Kamm, author and columnist for The Times Creative writing can enhance wellbeing, which can enhance creative writing, which can enhance wellbeing ... Become a better writer with over 100 inspiring prompts, insights and exercises specially devised by an award-winning author and creative writing teacher. Discover how the practice of creative writing - being expressive, exploring ideas, crafting words, shaping stories - can also deepen your appreciation of life.

Story Writing (Paperback): Edith Ronald Mirrielees Story Writing (Paperback)
Edith Ronald Mirrielees
R473 Discovery Miles 4 730 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Notes from an experienced writer -- including examples from the author's own work as well as the work of students -- highlight an easily accessible beginner's guide to the art of story writing.

How to Write Like Tolstoy - A Journey into the Minds of Our Greatest Writers (Paperback): Richard Cohen How to Write Like Tolstoy - A Journey into the Minds of Our Greatest Writers (Paperback)
Richard Cohen 1
R293 R268 Discovery Miles 2 680 Save R25 (9%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

A Spectator Best Book of the Year `There are three rules for writing a novel,' Somerset Maugham once said. `Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.' So how to bring characters to life, find a voice, kill your darlings, avoid plagiarism (or choose not to), or run that most challenging of literary gauntlets-writing a good sex scene? Veteran editor and author Richard Cohen takes us on a fascinating excursion into the lives and minds of our greatest writers-from Balzac and Eliot to Woolf and Nabokov, through to Zadie Smith and Stephen King, with a few mischievous detours to Tolstoy along the way. In a glittering tour d'horizon, he lays bare their tricks, motivations, techniques, obsessions and flaws.

The Art of Writing for the Theatre - An Introduction to Script Analysis, Criticism, and Playwriting (Hardcover): Luke Yankee The Art of Writing for the Theatre - An Introduction to Script Analysis, Criticism, and Playwriting (Hardcover)
Luke Yankee; Series edited by Jim Volz
R2,535 Discovery Miles 25 350 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Filled with practical advice from an award-winning playwright, with a range of resources to guide you in the craft and business of theatre writing, The Art of Writing for the Theatre provides everything you need to write like a seasoned theatre professional, including: * how to analyze and break down a script * how to write a wide range of plays * how to critique a theatre production * how to construct and craft critical essays, cover letters, and theatrical resumes This thorough introduction is supplemented with exercises and new interviews with a host of internationally acclaimed playwrights, lyricists, and critics, including Marsha Norman, Beth Henley, Lyn Gardner, Octavio Solis, Ismail Khalidi, and David Zippel, among many others. Accompanying online resources include playwriting and script analysis worksheets and exercises, an example of a playwriting resume, and critical points to consider on playwriting, design, acting, directing and choreography.

Anyone Can Win at Gin Rummy and Canasta (Paperback): Alfred Drake Anyone Can Win at Gin Rummy and Canasta (Paperback)
Alfred Drake; Illustrated by Albert H. Morehead
R267 Discovery Miles 2 670 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Screenwriter's Bible (Paperback, 7th ed.): David Trottier The Screenwriter's Bible (Paperback, 7th ed.)
David Trottier
R784 Discovery Miles 7 840 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Provocations of Virtue - Rhetoric, Ethics, and the Teaching of Writing (Paperback): John Duffy Provocations of Virtue - Rhetoric, Ethics, and the Teaching of Writing (Paperback)
John Duffy
R625 Discovery Miles 6 250 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Hopscotch 1: Activity Book (Pamphlet): Hopscotch 1: Activity Book (Pamphlet)
R529 Discovery Miles 5 290 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Writing Fantasy and the Identity of the Writer - A Psychosocial Writer's Workbook (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019): Zoe... Writing Fantasy and the Identity of the Writer - A Psychosocial Writer's Workbook (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)
Zoe Charalambous
R2,437 Discovery Miles 24 370 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

This book presents the innovative pedagogy of Writing Fantasy: a method for exploring and shifting one's identity as a writer. The book draws on qualitative research with undergraduate creative writing students and fills a gap in the literature exploring creative writing pedagogy and creative writing exercises. Based on the potential to shift writer identity through creative writing exercises and the common ground that these share with the stance of the Lacanian analyst, the author provides a set of guidelines, exercises and case studies to trace writing fantasy, evidenced in one's creative writing texts and responses about creative writing. This innovative work offers fresh insights for scholars of creativity, Lacan and psychosocial studies, and a valuable new resource for students and teachers of creative writing.

Maternal Journal - A creative guide to journaling through pregnancy, birth and beyond (Paperback): Laura Godfrey-Isaacs,... Maternal Journal - A creative guide to journaling through pregnancy, birth and beyond (Paperback)
Laura Godfrey-Isaacs, Samantha McGowan
R583 R547 Discovery Miles 5 470 Save R36 (6%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Maternal Journal is filled to the brim with ideas, support and inspiration to create your very own journal through your pregnancy, birth and parenthood. This easy-to-use and beautifully illustrated book will help you explore your creative voice and develop a regular journaling practice using artistic tools and techniques that fit in with everyday parenting. Inside, you will find more than 80 unique guided journal exercises created by leading artists, midwives, doulas and therapists to boost your creativity and wellbeing and help you reflect during this transformational stage of your life. Write a list poem with poet Hollie McNish, build a self-care alphabet with writer Laura Dockrill, or make your journaling manifesto with writer and performer Bryony Kimmings. Be a revolutionary mother with artist Barby Asante and explore daily drawings with live artist Bobby Baker. Based on the award-winning global community movement, led by artist and midwife Laura Godfrey-Isaacs and communications and content producer Samantha McGowan, Maternal Journal promotes the simple but radical concept of expressing thoughts, feelings and experiences creatively in a journal to promote positive mental health and wellbeing throughout your parenting journey.

Dramatic Technique (Paperback): George Pierce Baker Dramatic Technique (Paperback)
George Pierce Baker
R581 Discovery Miles 5 810 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Jaws Unmade - The Lost Sequels, Prequels, Remakes, and Rip-Offs (Hardcover): John Lemay Jaws Unmade - The Lost Sequels, Prequels, Remakes, and Rip-Offs (Hardcover)
John Lemay; Contributions by Justin Mullis
R707 R636 Discovery Miles 6 360 Save R71 (10%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Another Mother - Curating and Creating Voices of Adoption, Surrogacy and Egg Donation (Paperback): Shanta Everington Another Mother - Curating and Creating Voices of Adoption, Surrogacy and Egg Donation (Paperback)
Shanta Everington
R1,294 Discovery Miles 12 940 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Another Mother gives voice to women who become mothers through the routes of adoption, surrogacy and egg donation, and their silent partners - the birth mothers, surrogate mothers and egg donors - who make motherhood possible for them. Exploring experiences of motherhood beyond the biological mother raising her child, Everington draws on interviews and a range of interdisciplinary approaches to produce illuminating personal testimonies which expand our understanding of what it means to be a mother. The life writing narratives also examine the unique and hidden relationships that exist between adopters and birth mothers, egg donors and women who become mothers through egg donation, and surrogates and women who become mothers through surrogacy. Offering a fresh approach in life writing, using hybrid form encompassing edited interview, re-imagined scenes, poetry, personal essay and quotation collage, this topical book is recommended for anyone interested in motherhood studies, gender and women's studies, life writing studies, the sociology of reproduction, creative non-fiction writing approaches, oral history, and ethnography studies.

Get Your Articles Published - How to write great non-fiction for publication (Paperback): Lesley Bown, Lesley Hudswell Get Your Articles Published - How to write great non-fiction for publication (Paperback)
Lesley Bown, Lesley Hudswell
R715 Discovery Miles 7 150 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

LEARN HOW TO WRITE SUCCESSFUL JOURNALISM, FEATURES AND ARTICLES FOR PUBLICATION. Get Your Articles Published is a practical step-by-step guide offering you the information you to learn about the market, requirements, practicalities and skills needed to write on a freelance basis for magazines, it covers all major genres from mainstream and lifestyle through to more specialised subject areas. With plenty of information on legalities and logistics, such as writing to deadlines, the material is also accompanied by a range of useful resources, from websites to books and relevant writers' societies. By the end of this book, you will know how to research not only your subject but also your target publication and its readers, benefit from insider hints and tips from industry professionals and learn how and what to submit and to whom. ABOUT THE SERIES The Teach Yourself Creative Writing series helps aspiring authors tell their story. Covering a range of genres from science fiction and romantic novels, to illustrated children's books and comedy, this series is packed with advice, exercises and tips for unlocking creativity and improving your writing. And because we know how daunting the blank page can be, we set up the Just Write online community at tyjustwrite, for budding authors and successful writers to connect and share.

Everyday Storytellers - A step by step guide to writing about your travels, adventures & life (Hardcover): Laura Stroud Everyday Storytellers - A step by step guide to writing about your travels, adventures & life (Hardcover)
Laura Stroud
R480 Discovery Miles 4 800 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Our World 2: Combo Split B (Paperback, 2nd edition): Gabrielle Pritchard Our World 2: Combo Split B (Paperback, 2nd edition)
Gabrielle Pritchard
R821 Discovery Miles 8 210 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Combo Split editions include half of the Student's Book content and corresponding sections of the Workbook, with online access to student resources.

Digital Storytelling and Ethics - Collaborative Creation and Facilitation (Hardcover): Amanda Hill Digital Storytelling and Ethics - Collaborative Creation and Facilitation (Hardcover)
Amanda Hill
R4,479 Discovery Miles 44 790 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Digital Storytelling and Ethics: Collaborative Creation and Facilitation provides a method for analyzing digital storytelling practices that focuses on the rhetorical, dialogic, co-productive, creative story-making space rather than the finished stories or the technologies. Looking through a new media lens, Amanda Hill situates the digital storytelling genre and writing practice as a co-creative media process created between writers, storytellers, educators/facilitators, institutions, and the audience, and discusses the inter-relationships within the collaborative writing workshop as well as in those found in the dissemination of the final digital stories. Digital Storytelling and Ethics provides a reflexive look at the responsibility of the facilitator in co-creative digital storytelling writing spaces and makes use of diverse international case studies as examples. Hill shows that writing educators/facilitators should interpret their roles within the collaborative creation process. This will ensure that responsible facilitation practices based in witnessing guide the storytelling process and create an environment that treats participants as subjects with the ability to respond to the world. This innovative book is an essential read for collaborative digital writers and facilitators.

Clever Girls - Autoethnographies of Class, Gender and Ethnicity (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019): Jackie Goode Clever Girls - Autoethnographies of Class, Gender and Ethnicity (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)
Jackie Goode
R2,911 Discovery Miles 29 110 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Winner of the Working-Class Studies Association's "Jake Ryan and Charles Sackrey Award for a Book about the Working-Class Academic Experience" This collection by three generations of women from predominantly working-class backgrounds explores the production of the classed, gendered and racialized subject with powerful, engaging, funny and moving stories of transitions through family relationships, education, friendships and work. The developments that take place across a life in processes of 'becoming' are examined through the fifteen autoethnographies that form the core of the book, set within an elaboration of the social, educational and geo-political developments that constitute the backdrop to contributors' lives. Clever Girls discusses the status of personal experience as 'research data' and the memory work that goes into the making of autoethnography-as-poiesis. The collection illustrates the huge potential of autoethnography as research method, mode of inquiry and creative practice to illuminate the specificities and commonalities of experiences of growing up as 'clever girls' and to sound a 'call to action' against inequality and discrimination.

Look 1: Combo Split B (Paperback, New edition): Look 1: Combo Split B (Paperback, New edition)
R817 Discovery Miles 8 170 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Look 5: Combo Split A (Paperback, New edition): Look 5: Combo Split A (Paperback, New edition)
R815 Discovery Miles 8 150 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Freelance Writing - A Straightforward Guide (Paperback, Revised edition): Stephen Wade Freelance Writing - A Straightforward Guide (Paperback, Revised edition)
Stephen Wade
R286 R261 Discovery Miles 2 610 Save R25 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Our World 1: Combo Split B (Paperback, 2nd edition): Diane Pinkley, Gabrielle Pritchard Our World 1: Combo Split B (Paperback, 2nd edition)
Diane Pinkley, Gabrielle Pritchard
R821 Discovery Miles 8 210 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Combo Split editions include half of the Student's Book content and corresponding sections of the Workbook, with online access to student resources.

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