Introduction 1. Stimulating Creativity: What Really Works 2. Keeping a Writer's Notebook 3. Character Creation 4. Setting 5. Point of View: Trying on Voices 6. Point of View: Degrees of Knowing 7. Showing and Telling 8. Structure 9. The Story and The Reader
Biography
Sara Haslam is Lecturer in Literature at the Open University. She is the author of Fragmenting Modernism: Ford Madox Ford, the Novel and the Great War (2002), and editor of Ford’s England and the English (2003) as well as Ford Madox Ford and the City (2005). She is working on a study of Ford’s biography.
Derek Neale is Lecturer in Creative Writing at the Open University. He is an award winning fiction writer and much of his PhD research focused on the link between writing and memory. He is editor and co-author of A Creative Writing Handbook (2009, A&C Black) and co-author of Writing Fiction (2008, Routledge).
