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Bridget is a novelist, prize winning short story writer and creative writing lecturer who has taught on undergraduate courses and in adult education. She has also been Writer in Residence at a community centre for the unemployed and low waged.

Praise for BACK TO CREATIVE WRITING SCHOOL

“An indispensable tool for anyone wanting to write fiction...”
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"It really feels as though you have the best kind of supportive teacher by your side" Kate Harrison, author of The Secret Shopper, Boot Camp and The 5:2 Diet Book

"It's more than a writer's handbook - it's a book which anyone could read and if they did they would probably find their pleasure in words and the world heightened.”
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	Back to Creative Writing School 3.98 avg rating — 162 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Good Confession 3.38 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2009 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Women and Video Game Modding: Essays on Gender and the Digital Community by Bridget Whelan (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Matthew Wilhelm Kapell (Editor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Make Money from Your Writing it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2006	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dancing With Words really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Harry Barry & Larry Go To The Petshop by Simon Paine, Simon Watkinson (Illustrator), Bridget Whelan (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Write about the world where that name was first spoken. Write about the questions it throws up. And the answers you don't always have.”
― Bridget Whelan, Back to Creative Writing School

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“The best bit of writing advice I ever got was if you do something, something happens.”
― Bridget Whelan, Back to Creative Writing School

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“Good people do bad things sometimes: bad people can have genuine warmth and charm.”
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“This machine kills fascists.”
― Woody Guthrie

tags: folk-music, guitar, music, power-of-music

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“The first draft of anything is shit.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: attributed-no-source, writing

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“Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.”
― Mark Twain

tags: humor, writing

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“She's got a big belt around her hips. It has a shiny buckle with PRADA on it, which is Italian for insecure.”
― Jennifer Donnelly, Revolution

tags: historical-fiction, jennifer-donnelly, revolution, urban, young-adult-series

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“Hugh Laurie (playing Mr. Palmer) felt the line 'Don't palm all your abuses [of language upon me]' was possibly too rude. 'It's in the book,' I said. He didn't hit me.”
― Emma Thompson, The Sense and Sensibility Screenplay and Diaries: Bringing Jane Austen's Novel to Film

tags: adaptation, books, jane-austen, language, movies, screenplays, writing

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