In January I asked on Facebook and Twitter if any of my writing friends could supply some examples of the mythical ‘Rules of Creative Writing’ (they’re really like urban myths) for my essay for the Creative Writing MA — which was really an exercise for me to take out one of my hobby horses on an extended canter. I said I’d post the responses up on my blog which I’m doing now I’ve had the essay marked — and discovered, to my relief, that what I thought was something of a rant, had passed rather than failed, as I feared it might have done.<\/p>\n
So here are rules identified by friends from the City University Certificate in Novel Writing via Facebook (thanks to Guy Russell, Rick Kellum and Charlotte Haigh):<\/p>\n
And here are the four that I particularly concentrated on in the essay, which I’d identified through reading similarly sceptical blog postings (such as those by\u00c2\u00a0Debi Alper<\/a>,\u00c2\u00a0Emma Darwin<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0and\u00c2\u00a0Nicola Morgan<\/a>)\u00c2\u00a0and ‘how-to’ books (notably Stephen King’s ‘On Writing’).<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In January I asked on Facebook and Twitter if any of my writing friends could supply some examples of the mythical ‘Rules of Creative Writing’ (they’re really like urban myths) for my essay for the Creative Writing MA — which was really an exercise for me to take out one of my hobby horses on … <\/p>\n\n