"Life Writing" offers the novice writer engaging and creative activities, making use of insightful, relevant readings from well-known authors to illustrate the techniques presented. This volume makes use of new versions of key chapters from the recent Routledge/Open University textbook, "Creative Writing: A Workbook with Readings" for writers who are specializing in life writing. Using their experience and expertise as teachers as well as authors, Derek Neale and Sara Haslam guide aspiring writers through such key writing skills as: writing what you know; investigating biography and autobiography; using prefaces; finding a form; using memory; developing characters; and using novelistic, poetic and dramatic techniques.The volume is further updated to include never-before published interviews and conversations with successful life writers such as Jenny Diski, Robert Fraser, Richard Holmes, Michael Holroyd, Jackie Kay, Hanif Kureishi and Blake Morrison. Concise and practical, "Life Writing" offers an inspirational guide to the methods and techniques of authorship and is a must-read for aspiring writers.
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