Table of Contents

Contents Acknowledgements Introduction: Style, Composition, Creative Practice 1. Seeing Through Language 2. Building Blocks I: A Grammar of Creative Writing 3. Building Blocks II: Narrative and Structure (Story Narratology) 4. Through the Looking Glass: Who Sees? Who Tells? (Discourse Narratology) 5. Writing Voices: Presenting Speech and Thought 6. Creating a World: Text-world Theory and Cognitive Poetics 7. Creative Writing: Figurative Language 8. Meaning and Play: Metaphor 9. Creating Soundscapes: Rhythm and Meter, Sound and Sense Appendix Notes Bibliography References and selected further reading.

About the Author

Jeremy Scott is Lecturer in English at the University of Kent, UK. He has published many articles on contemporary fiction, narrative technique and stylistics-based approaches to the teaching of creative writing. He has also published several short stories and is currently working on a novel.