Opening a window wide onto an exciting creative landscape - your own imagination - this book covers a variety of different areas, using exercises to help readers explore and develop their own ideas. This new edition includes chapters on writing from experience, magazine short stories, creative writing competitions, research and the Internet and the writer and technology. It also restructures existing material to make it easier for the reader to navigate around the book: starting with short experimental forms of writing to get the reader started, moving on to a bigger projects and further to specific writing techniques.