The Writer's Way: A Complete Guide to Creative Writing with 40 Inspirational Projects

Whether you are a total beginner or looking to improve your skills, The Writer's Way offers clear and no-nonsense guidance on the art of creative writing.

Award-winning author Sara Maitland is the perfect companion on this journey - providing practical advice and motivation to help hone your craft. Including 40 literary exercises for you to work through, this book will help you:

• Decide on your project
• Establish useful writing habits
• Experiment with different forms
• Overcome writers block
• Submit your work to publishers
• And much more

Whether you read it in one sitting, or take your time working through the exercises as you go, this is a terrific book to get you going and keep you going, on the writer's way.

Sara Maitland was born in 1950 and brought up in London and Scotland. She took a degree in English at Oxford University. Since 1979, She has published six novels and five collections of short stories as well as an eclectic range of non-fiction, from gardening history to feminist theology and has an extensive journalism portfolio. She has written extensively for BBC Radio. One of her radio plays, Other Voices, won the Media Mental Health Award in 2002. She was the last scriptwriter to work with Stanley Kubrick on AI – now a Spielberg film, and worked on the prize-winning animation The Pleasures of War. She teaches for Lancaster University’s distance learning MA in Creative Writing, and is an editorial reader for TLC (a literary consultancy). Until last year she was the Course Leader in Creative Writing for the Open College of the Arts.