How to Think Like a Writer: For Creative Writing Students and Their Tutors

How to Think Like a Writer: For Creative Writing Students and Their Tutors

by Louise Tondeur
How to Think Like a Writer: For Creative Writing Students and Their Tutors

How to Think Like a Writer: For Creative Writing Students and Their Tutors

by Louise Tondeur

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Overview

How to Think Like a Writer is aimed at undergraduate and postgraduate Creative Writing students and their tutors. Arranged into weeks, the book contains enough material for a 2 x 10 week programme, plus additional workshop material to help students think differently about creative careers and being a writer in the world. If you are not on a course, the tools in this book will help you to establish a writing habit, especially if you need help getting over fear of the blank page.

How to Think Like a Writer introduces you to a writer's toolkit, a set of tools that you can use to generate words and connect with your creative side. These tools will help you to accept and confront your internal censor or judge and to develop a writer's mindset.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781999805494
Publisher: Louise Tondeur
Publication date: 11/14/2017
Series: Small Steps , #4
Edition description: 2nd ed.
Pages: 170
Sales rank: 884,119
Product dimensions: 5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.39(d)

About the Author

Louise Tondeur published two novels with Headline Review: The Water's Edge and The Haven Home for Delinquent Girls. Then she travelled for a while, wrote a PhD, started a family, published short stories, poems and articles, and worked full-time as a university lecturer, all the time trying to find time to write amongst the hectic-ness of everyday life. She shares productivity tips on the Small Steps blog at: www.smallstepsguide.co.uk Her author website is at: www.louisetondeur.co.uk

Table of Contents

Introduction 7

Part One

Weeks one and two: Get Writing. 13

Week Three: Freewriting 15

Weeks four and five: Close Observation and Creative Visualisation 19

Week Six: Writing Prompts 31

Week Seven: Live Writing 35

Week Eight: Mindfulness 38

Week Nine: Is it possible to teach someone to be creative? 43

Week ten: Wordplay 49

Part Two

Week One - Three: Creative Journeys 53

Week Four: Processes 56

Week Five: Storyboarding 58

Week Six: Rewriting the myths of success and failure 60

Week seven to ten: The Journey from Idea to Bookshelf. 63

Bonus chapter: How to find a writing-related job 66

Acknowledgements 70

My other books 70

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