Key Conceptse 1
Absurd Literature 1
Action 2
Adaptation 3
Adjectives and Adverbs 4
Agent 5
Alienation Effect 5
Alliteration 6
Angry Young Men 6
Antagonist 7
Aporia 8
Aristotle's Poetics 8
Ballad 12
Beat 13
Beat Writers 13
Blurb 14
Bookseller 15
Caesura 16
Change 16
Character 18
Chick lit 22
Children's Books 24
Cliché 26
Commissioning Editor 26
Concrete Poetry 27
Conflict 27
Contract 28
Copyright 29
Crisis 29
Defamiliarisation 30
Description 30
Detective Fiction 33
Dialogue 36
Draft 39
Dramatic Agenda 40
Dramatic Monologue 40
Dramatic Stakes 42
Dramatisation 43
Editor 45
Emotion 45
Empathy 46
End-stopping 46
Enjambment 46
Experimental Writing 47
Exposition 48
Feedback 50
Flash Fiction 51
Folktales 51
Foreshadowing 52
Fourth Wall Drama 54
Free Verse 54
Free Writing 55
Genre 56
Ghostwriter 57
Gothic Writing 58
Identification 61
Imagery 62
In-Yer-Face Theatre 62
Inciting Incident 64
Irony 65
Juxtaposition 68
Layout 70
Libel 72
Life Writing 72
Literary Agent 74
Literary Magazines 75
Magic（Magical）Realism 77
Metaphor 77
Method 79
Metre 80
Modernism 83
Moral of the Story 84
Myths and Legends 85
New Media 86
New Playwriting 87
Notebooks 88
Novellas 88
Novels 89
Option 92
Pace 93
Performance Poetry 94
Pitch 95
Poetic Form 95
Poetry Archive 99
Poetry Library 99
Poetry Society 99
Point of View 100
Postmodernism 104
Premise 106
Print-on-Demand 107
Prizes and Competitions 107
Proposal 109
Protagonist 109
Psychogeography 109
Radio Play 110
Realist Writing 111
Reflective Commentaries 114
Research 114
Rhyme 115
Rhythm 116
Rising Action 117
Romantic Poetry 117
Royalties 119
Scene 121
Science Fiction 121
Script Reports 124
Self-publishing 124
Setting 125
Short Stories 127
Showing and Telling 128
Sight-specific Writing 128
Society of Authors 129
Status 130
Story and Plot 130
Storyworld 133
Stream of Consciousness 134
Structure 135
Subtext 135
Suspense 136
Suspension of Disbelief 137
Sympathy 138
Synopsis 138
Television Writing 139
Theme 141
Time 141
Titles 142
Tragedy 143
Travel Writing 143
Treatment 145
Turning Point 145
Unity 147
Unsolicited Manuscript 147
Vanity Publishing 148
Verbatim Theatre 148
Verse and Stanza 150
Visual Poetry 152
Voice 153
Writers'Guild of Great Britain 155
Bibliography 157
Index 167