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Writing from Life : = How to Turn Your Personal Experience into Profitable Prose.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Writing from Life :/
Reminder of title:	How to Turn Your Personal Experience into Profitable Prose.
Author:	Hackles, Lynne.
Description:	1 online resource (193 pages)
Subject:	Authorship. -
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ISBN:	9781848032613

Writing from Life : = How to Turn Your Personal Experience into Profitable Prose.
Hackles, Lynne.

Writing from Life :How to Turn Your Personal Experience into Profitable Prose. - 1 online resource (193 pages)

Intro -- Contents -- 1 Writing and Your life -- Personal experience -- Exercise -- Using memory aids -- Exercise -- Exercise -- What to do with your personal experiences -- Proof that you can use anything -- Overcoming writers block -- Exercise -- PART ONE: NON-FICTION -- 2 Easy Ways to Start -- Writing for letters pages -- Exercise -- What you need to know -- Checklist - golden rules -- Doing market research -- Exercise -- Other openings -- Tip -- 3 And My Specialist Subject Is. . . -- Everyone has one -- Investigating markets -- Exercise -- Specialist subjects -- Hobbies -- Exercise -- More specialist subjects -- Collections -- Exercise -- And more specialist subjects -- Jobs -- Exercise -- And more specialist subjects -- Writing for different markets -- One offs or forevers -- Facts -- 4 Washing your Dirty Linen -- Understanding the requirements -- A warning -- Why are you doing this? -- Exercise -- Seven deadly sins -- Learning from soaps -- An A-Z of ideas -- Would your story be big enough to fill a book? -- 5 Wholesome Real Life -- Writing about real life experiences -- Nothing much has happened -- Exercise -- Nostalgia is big -- Exercise -- Using humour -- What can't you do? -- Exercises -- Writing about children -- Exercise -- Writing about animals -- Writing about psychic experiences -- 6 Everyone has a Book in Them -- Who is it for? -- Where do I begin? -- Humour and your life -- An ordinary life -- Exercise -- Libel and how to avoid it -- Interests - explored and unexplored -- Tips -- Interviewing techniques -- Six top tips -- PART TWO: FICTION -- 7 What is Fiction? -- A definition -- Turning fact into fiction -- Constructing characters -- Exercises -- Plotting -- Conveying emotions -- Exercises -- Strengthening your writing -- Exercises -- 8 Short Stories -- Knowing the markets -- Using your personal experiences.

The first words Lynne Hackles ever sold netted GBP 2. Since then her motto 'never let truth get in the way of entertainment' has helped turn hundreds of personal experiences into stories which have sold in the UK and abroad. She leads writing workshops and runs tutorials for a leading correspondence school.

ISBN: 9781848032613Subjects--Topical Terms:

566803
Authorship.
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LC Class. No.: PN147

Dewey Class. No.: 808;808.02;808.042;808/.02

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505 8 $a Borrowing personal experiences -- Tiny personal experiences -- Using what if? -- Anecdotes aren't stories -- Writing twist ends -- Exercise -- 9 Novels -- A new experience? -- Slowing down -- How do I begin? -- Using personal experience -- Exercise -- Choosing the genre -- Exercise -- Recap -- 10 Writing for Children -- Exercise -- Why do you want to write for children? -- Before you start -- Writing for different age groups -- Exercises -- Emotions -- Settings -- Characters -- Exercises -- Writing dialogue -- Exercise -- Plotting -- Fairy godmothers -- Difficult bits -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y.
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