The Exercise Book: creative writing exercises from Victoria University's Institute of Modern letters

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The Exercise Book: creative writing exercises from Victoria University's Institute of Modern letters

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Exercises give your body a work-out.These exercises do the same for your imagination. The Exercise Book is full of stimulating trigger ideas – a treasure trove for writers. There are writing prompts here that will help those who are just beginning. There are others that tackle the dreaded condition known as writer’s block. Several exercises are designed specifically for the high school classroom. The contributors are all published and successful writers. They include staff from Victoria’s famed creative writing program – Ken Duncum, Bill Manhire, Chris Price, Damien Wilkins – and many others associated with the program as teachers and graduates. There are exercise ideas from writers like Emily Perkins, David Vann, Nigel Cox, Curtis Sittenfeld, Kate De Goldi, Dora Malech, Lavinia Greenlaw, Laurence Fearnley, Eirlys Hunter, James Brown, Kate Camp, Dinah Hawken, Jenny Bornholdt, Paula Morris, Hinemoana Baker, Catherine Chidgey and Kirsty Gunn – plus advice on how to create whole fictional worlds from Elizabeth and Sara Knox, from David Geary and Eleanor Catton.In between are exercises from a host of New Zealand and international writers that explore the nuts and bolts of craft – in poetry, fiction and scriptwriting – along with others that tap the sources of inspiration or show the value of revision and editing.

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Language En-GB
Publisher Victoria University Press
Published December 1, 2011
ISBN 13518830
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Ken Duncum is a writer and avid reader based in the Pacific Northwest. Before pursuing writing full-time, they spent over a decade working in education. When not working on their next book, Ken Duncum can usually be found hiking with their dog or trying out new coffee shops in their neighborhood.

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