Library Spotlight

Library Spotlight Creative Writing WEEK B

Story Starters Are you a budding writer but don’t know where to start? Looking for some inspiration for your next story? Check out our box of Story Starters (located by the window in the history section)!

In each bubble you’ll find the opening sentence of a story - and it’s up to you to decide where it goes next! Story starters are a fantastic way to jump-start the creative process. Who knows where they might take you...?

Writers: Their Lives and Works

Books of the Week

How Stories Work & Why We Tell Them

Writers: Their Lives and Works

Letters of Note

How to Write Like Chekhov

In keeping with this week’s theme of creative writing, we’ve picked four of our favourite books about writers and storytelling. For those looking to hone their writing craft, we recommend How to Write like Chekhov , which draws on the great Russian’s works and letters to provide indispensable advice for all writers. John Yorke’s influential Into the Woods gets to the heart of why we tell stories and shows how the same basic narrative structures can be found in the stories humans have told throughout history. If you’re looking for a more biographical angle, have a look through the beautifully illustrated Writers: Their Lives and Works. And finally, Letters of Note is a fascinating compilation of correspondence by some our greatest cultural icons, from Mozart and Brontë to Sylvia Plath and David Bowie.

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