Creative writing and critical reading: how reading can improve your writing

Creative writing and critical reading: how reading can improve your writing, explores the importance of reading as part of a creative writer’s development at the postgraduate level. You will gain inspiration and ideas from examining other writers’ methods, as well as enhancing your critical reading skills. Examples will cover the genres of fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry and scriptwriting.

After reading this ebook, you should be able to: understand the importance of reading as part of a creative writer’s development; engage analytically and critically with a range of literary and media texts; recognise how critical reading supplies writers with inspiration and ideas; understand through writing practice one or more of the genres of fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry and scriptwriting; and engage with postgraduate modes of reading and writing practice.

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