Whether you are taking a course in creative writing or making your first solitary steps in fiction, poetry or drama, this is the book you need.The Writer's Workbookprovides a concise introduction to the terrain, with directions to the wider world of writing. It offers key points of good practice, warnings about the main pitfalls, and a variety of exercises to hone your skills. Readers will find advice on writing short stories, poetry, novels, plays, song lyrics, TV, radio and film scripts, as well as advice on writing for children, travel writing, writing on the web, and how to get published. Jenny Newman is Head of the Liverpool John Moores Centre for Writing. Edmund Cusick is Head of Writing at Liverpool John Moores University, and winner of the Housman Poetry Prize. Aileen La Tourette is a poet and writes fiction and radio drama, and is a lecturer in Liverpool John Moores Centre for Writing. Whether you are taking a course in creative writing or making your first solitary steps in fiction, poetry or drama, this is the book you need.The Writer's Workbookprovides a concise introduction to the terrain, with directions to the wider world of writing. It offers key points of good practice, warnings about the main pitfalls, and a variety of exercises to hone your skills. Readers will find advice on writing short stories, poetry, novels, plays, song lyrics, TV, radio and film scripts, as well as advice on writing for children, travel writing, writing on the web, and how to get published. Whether you are taking a course in creative writing or making your first solitary steps in fiction, poetry or drama, this is the book you need.The Writer's Workbookprovides a concise introduction to the terrain, with directions to the wider world of writing. It offers key points of good practice, warnings about the main pitfalls, and a variety of exercises to hone your skills. Readers will find advice on writing short stories, poetry, novels, plays, song lyrics, TV, radio and film scripts, as well as advice on writing for children, travel writing, writing on the web, and how to get published. "A unique blend of practical advice and distilled wisdom, invaluable as a guide for anyone seriously interested in a writing career--I wish I'd had it at my elbow when I started out."Barry Unsworth, Booker Prize-winning novelist