Themself : Confessions Of An Open University Creative Writing Student

What do they teach you at Creative Writing school? How do you find time to fit it all in? How do you make the ideas come? 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 "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: Confessions of 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. He didn't quite make it, but he did get hooked on writing. That was his spur to enrol on a Creative Writing course with the Open University starting in October 2013. James didn't have a background in English Lit, in fact he studied science as an undergraduate in the early 1990s. Despite this he managed to to get a 2:1 equivalent pass mark. While studying James was also working full time, being a parent, a cub scout leader and a school governor. 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 has written there is the commentary on how and why they were written. The main stories in Themself are: Night Patrol Rounds Refusal Hunting Nazis James has a novel scheduled for publication in late 2016, Perfects is a tale of intrigue about a group of genetically engineered people attempting to discover why they were created and also avoid persecution from the state.

• | Author: James Kemp
• | Publisher: Castlegreen Publishing
• | Publication Date: Jan 21, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 240 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1909951161
• | ISBN-13: 9781909951167