Your Creative Writing Masterclass: Featuring Austen, Chekhov, Dickens, Hemingway, Nabokov, Vonnegut, and More Than 100 Contemporary and Classic Authors - Advice from the Best on Writing Successful Novels, Screenplays and Short Stories

Author(s): Jurgen Wolff

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Who are the people most qualified to teach writing? Surely it is the authors whose work has endured for decades, or even a century or more?


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"Your Creative Writing Masterclass distills some of the most incisive wisdom of the literary greats, helping to guide modern-day authors who wish to write fiction well, and to better understand the career and lifestyle of a professional author." - Michael J. Ross, writer (www.ross.ws ) " A wonderful resource for both individual writers, and for writing groups. It helps writers feel that even when sitting alone at their desks, they are not alone. Opening this book, they access the wisdom of great writers, and the practical help and advice from Jurgen Wolff, a generous and constructive writing companion." - Julie Everton is an award winning playwright, whose plays have been produced at the Royal Court and Soho theatre. She teaches creative writing and screenwriting at the University of Brighton. " I think it's a great book. The tone strikes a good balance between chatty and knowledgeable. It's definitely a book I could use with my students. The layout of each chapter works as a lesson plan - a presentation, with examples, followed by practical exercises." - Robin Gott, creative writing teacher, Sweden

Jurgen Wolff is a writer, teacher, NLP practitioner and the author of many books, including Your Writing Coach, Successful Scriptwriting (60,000 copies sold) Creativity Now!, Focus: the power of targeted thinking, Do Something Different as well as a dozen plays. A consistently successful screenwriter, Wolff has sat on the writing team on the hit TV series LOST and many other successful HBO projects. He has consulted to TV companies around the world (BBC, SKY, Columbia/Tri-Star)and written for newspapers including The Times. He holds creativity workshops around the world for organizations such as the Academy for Chief Executives, the University of Barcelona, the Pilots Programme, the Bertelsmann Foundation, film schools in Cologne, Berlin, and Munich, and many others. Born and educated in the US, Wolff now divides his time between London and California.

General Fields

  • : 9781857885781
  • : Nicholas Brealey Publishing
  • : Nicholas Brealey Publishing
  • : 01 December 2011
  • : United Kingdom
  • : 01 February 2012
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Jurgen Wolff
  • : Paperback
  • : 1
  • : 320