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Authors - are you ready for the audiobook revolution? Audio is the fastest-growing publishing market, yet so few writers have audio writing skills. This essential guide by an ex BBC radio journalist and scriptwriter will get your writing audio-ready with writing techniques from radio, spoken word and performance.

From award-winning writer and Open University tutor Jules HorneReady to step your creative writing up a gear?Discover the powerful dramatic concepts used by playwrights and screenwriters to keep audiences on the edge of their seats.Transform your understanding of space, time, characters and action.Get to grips with scenes, status, rituals, subtext and objects, to write more compelling, driven scenes.This practical guide is ideal for fiction writers, playwrights, poets and copywriters who want to write and edit boldly, with greater impact. Learn how playwrights and screenwriters wrangle time and space how to write characters with dramatic energy how to use the secret power of metaphor how to boost pace and tension how to write subtext…and discover hidden treasures from high-powered dramatic thinkers, from Stanislavski to Goffman to Bachelard.Dramatic Techniques for Creative Writers is just the jolt your creative writing needs!Jules Horne is an award-winning playwright and fiction writer. Her plays have won two Edinburgh Fringe Firsts, and she teaches creative writing for the Open University.Superlatives aren't enough. A must for every creative writer. Open University student

Thinking of starting a freelance copywriting business? This practical business guide tells you how to start your writing business, find clients, set up a work pipeline, handle time and money, and survive and thrive on the freelance frontline.Jules Horne is an award-winning writer, copywriter and associate lecturer with the Open University. Her copywriting business, Texthouse, has provided words for deep sea divers, heating engineers, housing associations, chocolatiers and many other amazing businesses. Here's what she's learned on the way!This book is for all creative writers, journalists and talented bloggers who aspire to earn a living from their writing, and need business how-tos and inspiration on how to build a life as a freelance creative.