The Writing Experiment, Strategies for Innovative Creative Writing - Hazel Smith.pdf

This demystifying guide to creative writing shows that successful work arises not from talent or inspiration alone but from several stages of development within a systematic strategy. Recommending an exploratory approach to writing, this book offers practical exercises that bring exceptional creative writing within reach. Each chapter is illustrated with extensive examples of student work and published writing including fiction, poetry, plays, performance, and new media.

Fantastic for stimulating creative ideas September 9, 2007
By K. McCulloch
I love this book. I haven't worked through the whole of it yet, but I keep coming back to it each time I get stuck or slowed down in my writing.

The title may sound intimidating to some, but Smith breaks the exercises down into easy to manage parts and then builds them back up, providing numerous examples from both students' and published authors' writing.

Her exercises are very different to the stock exercises of other writing books, great for stimulating new ideas, and she's not afraid to take issue with standard writing advice where she feels it's necessary.