NEW-- Includes a new chapter on creative non-fiction.

NEW-- Features an expanded section on writing for screen and television.

NEW-- Includes a revised opening chapter emphasizing the pleasures of creative writing.

NEW-- Includes new material on free verse in the poetry section.

NEW-- Incorporates an updated Tools and Resources section.

Begins with an extensive look at issues that are of importance to every creative writer, e.g. attitudes, habits, journal-keeping, point of view, language, invention and research, and more.

Illustrates faulty student practices with accompanying explanations and suggestions, e.g., diction problems, poetry problems, narration problems, and dialogue problems.

Contains multiple exercises on each issue explored, many of which are connected to the sample writing.

• features questions and exercises designed to involve students in the issues and practice of literary craft, and which may spark results worth developing into poems, stories, or plays.

Features several chapters on each major genre.

Provides numerous examples of effective creative writing of various types.

Emphasizes basic conventions and terms throughout.

Considers how word processing may affect the writing process.

Features the necessary tools, including manuscript form, resource texts, markets, and terms.