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    Write Your Own Thillers: Create Your Own Heart-Stopping Stories and Nail Biting Tales

    By Pie Corbett

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    Interactive ebook with 'Time to Write' and 'Writing Tips' waiting to be revealed at the press of a button Learn how to create your own characters, captivate your readers, set up great scenarios and end with the ultimate twist Chapters include Flights of Fantasy, Tricks of the Trade, Putting Pen to Paper and Editing and Publishing. A good fantasy takes you out of this world and creates a world that is wonderful and real. So why not write your own? This book gives you all you need to entrance your readers and get them searching for clues. Full of tips, advice and new ways of approaching creative writing, this is a handy guide for every aspiring writer.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPavilion Children's
    Release dateSep 17, 2013
    ISBN9781843652878
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    Write Your Own Thillers: Create Your Own Heart-Stopping Stories and Nail Biting Tales
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    Pie Corbett

    Pie Corbett has advised the National Literacy Strategy for both the Primary and Key Stage 3 phase. He works across the country, running inset and development projects - and was co-leader of the DfES Innovations project on 'Storymaking', based at the International Learning and Research Centre. Author of over 250 books, he writes poetry, stories and materials for teachers. He has compiled many best-selling anthologies for Macmillan Children’s Books including A First Poetry Book and Assembly Poems.

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