Dramatic Techniques for Creative Writers

Ready to step your creative writing up a gear?Discover the powerful dramatic concepts used by playwrights and screenwriters to keep audiences on the edge of their seats.Transform your understanding of space, time, characters and action.Get to grips with scenes, status, rituals, subtext and objects, to write more compelling, driven scenes.This practical guide is ideal for fiction writers, playwrights, poets and copywriters who want to write and edit boldly, with greater impact. Learnhow playwrights and screenwriters wrangle time and spacehow to write characters with dramatic energyhow to use the secret power of metaphorhow to boost pace and tensionhow to write subtext...and discover hidden treasures from high-powered dramatic thinkers, from Stanislavski to Goffman to Bachelard.Dramatic Techniques for Creative Writers is just the jolt your creative writing needs!Jules Horne is an award-winning playwright and fiction writer. Her plays have won two Edinburgh Fringe Firsts, and she has 13 years' experience as a Creative Writing Associate Lecturer with The Open University.Superlatives aren't enough. A must for every creative writer. Open University student