The Writers' Handybook: For Quality Fiction and Poetry

This writers' handbook aims to advise and support new and more experienced teen and adult writers with a passion for fiction writing and poetry. The author draws on their 35 years as a community workshop leader, tutor and university lecturer in creative writing and covers ways to get started, tapping into the imagination, and a variety of writing workshops suitable for writing groups, students, creative writing tutors and individual writers. The author also discusses their personal writing experience and encourages writers to read well. This book references fiction by successful contemporary authors and examines the various techniques employed.