Book excerpt: A Crash Course in Creative Writing explores new ways of writing and expressing your creativity. Suitable for beginners as well as people keen to learn more, this book is based on creative writing workshops and individual lessons with various ages and abilities. Learn new techniques, beginning by using life experiences and being creative with what you know, then move on to completely fictional tasks and scenarios. At the end of the book is a mini-book project based on creating the different parts of a complete book. This is the Large Print edition.