Playing With Words

A Introduction to Creative Craft

Shelley Davidow, Paul Williams

• Publisher: Red Globe Press
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN: 9781137532527
• eBook ISBN: 9781137532541
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Languages & Linguistics
• Subtopic: Creative Writing
• Index: Languages & Linguistics

Drawing on years of experience of writing, teaching and publishing, this book offers essential tools for writers interested in honing their craft. Whether you're a poet, non-fiction writer, novelist, journalist, student or simply a lover of words, it will take you on an exciting and challenging journey to becoming a sophisticated writer. As in the learning of any true craft or art, first the focus is on specific skills, then on consolidating those skills, which by the end will be innate. Through a variety of exercises and freewriting prompts, Playing with Words will help you develop your writing, trying out new styles and approaches along the way. Use this book in a class, in a group, or alone in a writer's attic.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• 1 Playing with Words: Flaubert’s ‘le mot juste’
• 2 Stunning Sentences and Powerful Paragraphs – and the role of the Grammar Police
• 3 Sound and Rhythm in Voice
• 4 Angling for a View – Who’s Telling?
• 5 Really Bad Writing: Melodrama, Sentimentality, Overwriting and Lazy Writing
• 6 Silences and the Spaces Between
• 7 Painting the Picture: Images that Light up the Sensory Cortex
• 8 Those Who Speak: Avatars, Characters, Selves
• 9 Building Narratives: Movement through Time and Place
• 10 Innovations
• Appendix
• References
• Index