From Quill to Keyboard
By Joan Curry
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Writers are always talking to each other over coffee or lunch about what they do, how they do it, what concerns them, and how they manage their working lives. The eight essays in this short book cover some of the topics discussed, such as what gets us started, how we balance professional and practical matters, the value of creative writing courses, and other aspects of the writing process. The ideas have been developed during many years of writing, and teaching creative writing to adult students. This last has been a most rewarding experience because it has been a two-way street. I have learned at least as much from my students as I hope they have learned from me. These essays have been previously published elsewhere as separate pieces, and I have collected them together now as an adjunct to the how-to manual called "Writing, a practical guide" which is also available as an ebook.
Joan Curry
Joan Curry is a New Zealander. She has worked in bookshops and book trade organisations, and has been writing for nearly forty years. She has written mostly non-fiction (feature articles, essays and opinion pieces, book reviews, notes for book discussion groups) and some short fiction and poetry. She has researched and written two volumes of family history and an autobiography. The manual “Writing - a practical Guide” is based on teaching notes developed over two decades teaching creative writing to adult students.
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From Quill to Keyboard - Joan Curry
FROM QUILL TO KEYBOARD
Eight essays about writing
Joan Curry
Blog: http://joancurry.blogspot.com/
copyright Joan Curry 2011
ISBN: 978-0-473-19822-0
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface
Get it down, then get it right
Quill or keyboard?
What's stopping you?
For love or money?
Writing for hire
Writing non-fiction
Creative writing courses
Make a book or two
PREFACE
Writers are always talking to each other over coffee or lunch about what they do, how they do it, what concerns them, and how they manage their working lives. The eight essays in this short book cover some of the topics discussed, such as what gets us started, how we balance professional and practical matters, the value of creative writing courses, and other aspects of the writing process. The ideas have been developed during many years of writing, and teaching creative writing to adult students. This last has been a most rewarding experience because it has been a two-way street. I have learned at least as much from my students as I hope they have learned from me.
These essays have been previously published elsewhere as separate pieces, and I have collected them together now as an adjunct to the how-to manual called Writing, a practical guide
which is also available as an ebook.
GET IT DOWN, THEN GET IT RIGHT
I had a friend who regularly, over the years, drove me crazy.
She had an incredibly fertile imagination. She had plenty of energy. She had absolutely no self-discipline.
She used to write two pages of a story and it would be all over the place. There were characters half-drawn, glimmers of plot that might or might