Creative Writing Handbook

by Jay Amberg, Mark Larson

This personal creative writing course has five self-contained instructional units for learning to write narratives, short fiction, and poetry. Real student writing samples are included. Grades 6-10

144 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1992

About the author

Jay Amberg is the author of twelve books. He received a BA from Georgetown University and a PhD from Northwestern University. He has taught high school and college students since 1972.

His latest book, The Healer’s Daughters, is now available from Amika Press. Amberg has also published Bone Box, Cycle, America’s Fool, Whale Song, and compiled 52 Poems for Men.

Prior to Amika Press, Amberg published thriller novels Doubloon (Forge), Blackbird Singing (Forge) and Deep Gold (Warner Books).

Among his books on teaching are School Smarts and The Study Skills Handbook, published by Good Year. Amberg wrote The Creative Writing Handbook (Good Year) with Mark Henry Larson and Verbal Review and Workbook for the SAT (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich) with Robert S Boone.

Reviews

[Storm · Rating 2 out of 5]

Pretty good. Lots of lessons on various kinds of writing without being too wordy or dull. Best to keep a notebook on hand though, if your one of those people who like writing down the question as well as the answer, you might end up using a lot of paper working through the lessons. Still, a pretty simple read.