What do they teach you at Creative Writing school?
This is an inspirational piece of life writing that should encourage those that want to try a new creative pursuit No matter how busy you think you are you can do it.
Praise for Crisis Point, also by James Kemp
"Tightly plotted, well-written, thrilling stuff, written by a man who knows his business." - M.J. Logue
"I could not stop reading until the end..." - Amazon.com reviewer
Themself: My Experience an Open University Creative Writing Student
On a whim in November 2012 James Kemp took part in the National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) challenge to write 50,000 words during November. The output of which was the five star Crisis Point. That was his spur to enrol on a Creative Writing course with the Open University starting in October 2013.
Themself is his story of how he became a better writer, told in part using contemporary blog posts from http://www.themself.org/
Through the book you can see:
- writing exercises with his responses to them and commentary.
- Notes on how to build worlds, create characters, tell stories and write fiction.
- Poetry demystified, with commentary on how to write it
As well as the stories and poetry he wrote there is commentary on how and why they were written. He shares notes on how to build worlds, create characters, tell stories, write poetry and fiction.
The main stories in Themself are:
- Night Patrol - a tense night with the British Army
- Rounds - a young midwife solves a problem by helping several others
- Refusal - an immigration officer deals with a visitor who is more than she claims
- Hunting Nazis - two former SOE agents settle some unfinished business in 1953 Berlin.
This edition has been edited and updated using feedback left by reviewers.
