The Prompts You Need to Help You Write the Book You Want to Write

How can you take your writing to the next level? In this follow-up to their acclaimed handbook The Book You Need to Read to Write the Book You Want to Write, Sarah Burton and Jem Poster offer exercises and practical advice designed to set aspiring authors of fiction on their way to creating compelling short stories and novels. Carefully explaining the purpose and value of each exercise and encouraging writers to reflect on what they have learned in tackling each task, this themed collection of writing prompts provides both encouragement and inspiration. There are many books of prompts already available, but this one is different. Its structured, in-depth approach significantly increases the impact of the exercises, ensuring that storytellers use their time and talent to best effect – not only exploring their own creativity but also developing a wider and clearer understanding of the writer's craft.

• Introduces the theory step by step using ordinary-language explanations and examples throughout
• Practice and theory are helpfully interwoven
• The authors are among the foremost specialists in the UK in creative writing, and this book can be used either in conjunction with or independently of their earlier The Book You Need to Read to Write the Book You Want to Write (Cambridge University Press, 2022)