Desire to Write: The Five Keys to Creative Writing

Graeme Harper's "Creative Writing: The Five Essential Keys" explores the discipline's history, theories, and future, offering practical advice for aspiring and established writers. It blends practice-based critical context with contemporary creative writing theory, making it an essential tool for students and writers alike.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 134 pages
Publication date: 03 January 2019
Publisher: Macmillan Education UK

Graeme Harper's innovative approach to creative writing challenges the traditional 'how-to' model and offers a personal manifesto that explores the reasons why humans are passionate about writing. By analyzing the five essential keys to creative writing, Harper delves into the past and future of creative writing, drawing on theories of the self, cultural interaction, consumption, and communication. This book combines practice-based critical context with contemporary creative writing theory, making it an ideal companion for undergraduate and postgraduate students of creative writing and literature. It is lively and thought-provoking, providing valuable insights for aspiring and established writers who wish to harness the positive effects of their craft.

Weight: 178g
Dimension: 146 x 155 x 10 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781137519900
Edition number: 1st ed. 2019