Creative Writing: Drafting, Revising and Editing

ISBN 10: 1137609567 / ISBN 13: 9781137609564

Published by Red Globe Press, 2020

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Creative Writing: Drafting, Revising and Editing
• Publisher: Red Globe Press
• Publication Date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1137609567
• ISBN 13: 9781137609564
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

This stimulating edited collection focuses on the practice of revision across all creative writing genres, providing a guide to the modes and methods of drafting, revising and editing. Offering an overview of how creative writing is generated and improved, the chapters address questions of how creative writers revise, why editing is such a crucial part of the creative process and how understanding the theories underpinning revision can enhance writers' projects.

Innovative and thought-provoking, this book is ideal for undergraduate and postgraduate students of creative writing, along with all creative writers looking to hone and polish their craft.

About the Authors

Michael Kardos is the Pushcart Prize-winning author of the novel The Three-Day Affair and the story collection One Last Good Time. Originally from the Jersey Shore, he currently lives in Starkville, Mississippi, where he teaches creative writing.

Kim Wiltshire is a playwright and fiction writer, and is Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at Edge Hill University, UK.

Professor Craig Batty is Head of Creative Writing at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia.

Stayci Taylor is Senior Lecturer at RMIT University in the School of Media and Communication. Her research interests include screenwriting, script development, nonfiction and creative practice. She has published in all of these areas, in both scholarly and creative outlets, and often through the lenses of gender and comedy. She is lead editor of The Palgrave Handbook of Script Development (2021).

Nigel McLoughlin is Professor of Creativity and Poetics at the University of Gloucestershire, UK.