Table of Contents

1. Writers' routines 2. Write about what you know: Observational journals 3. Write about what you don't know: Automatic writing 4. Don't tell me... 5. Write about what you used to know: Remembering and place 6. Write about who you know: Character 7. Voices 8. Viewpoints 9. Middles, ends, beginnings: Structure 10. Making strange: Defamiliarisation 11. Making clear: Revision, grammer and punctuation 12. Workshopping

About the Author

Andrew Cowan is the Director of the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) at the University of East Anglia. He is the author of four novels, including pig (1994), which was longlisted for the Booker Prize and won the Sunday Times Young Writier of the Year Award.