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Glimmer Train Guide to Writing Fiction, Vol. 2

Author : Susan Burmeister-Brown
Publisher : Writer's Digest Books
ISBN 13 : 9781582974477
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (744 download)

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Download or read book Glimmer Train Guide to Writing Fiction, Vol. 2 written by Susan Burmeister-Brown and published by Writer's Digest Books. This book was released on 2007-06-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Survey Our Literary Landscape From the Open Window of Glimmer Train &break;&break;What drives you to write? How does a particular piece of writing come to exist? &break;&break;In Inspiration and Discipline, the second volume in our Glimmer Train Guide to Writing Fiction series, more than one hundred accomplished authors set aside talk of character and scene in order to address the more private and elusive aspects of their writing lives. In excerpts from interviews conducted over a seventeen-year period and preserved by the editors of the highly respected literary quarterly Glimmer Train Stories and its supplement Writers Ask, contemporary writers offer insights on such topics as family support (or lack thereof), using autobiographical material, and the responsibility of writing–sharing their own personal and philosophical approaches to this most strange, heartbreaking, and wonderful of artistic vocations. &break;&break;Jayne Anne Phillips, Thisbe Nissen, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Thom Jones, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Beverly Lowry, Siri Hustvedt, Richard Bausch, Charles Baxter, Sue Miller, Ha Jin &break;&break;There may never be an explanation for where stories come from, but the wisdom, humor, and advice of the writers in these pages will provide you with the inspiration you need to keep your writing life moving forward.

The Glimmer Train Guide to Writing Fiction

Author : Susan Burmeister-Brown
Publisher : Writer's Digest Books
ISBN 13 : 9781582974460
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (744 download)

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Download or read book The Glimmer Train Guide to Writing Fiction written by Susan Burmeister-Brown and published by Writer's Digest Books. This book was released on 2006-11-24 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Survey Our Literary Landscape From the Open Window of Glimmer Train &break;&break;Many writing books offer instruction and inspiration, but never before has one pulled back the curtain and laid bare before you the joys, frustrations, struggles, and achievements of the literary life–as experienced by more than one hundred accomplished writers. In excerpts from interviews conducted over a sixteen-year period and preserved by the editors of the highly respected literary quarterly Glimmer Train Stories and its supplement Writers Ask, contemporary writers who rarely discuss their craft present you with eye-opening techniques, diverse perspectives, and genuine encouragement–the kind of wisdom earned only from years at the writing desk. &break; &break;Julia Alvarez, Edwidge Danticat, Robert Olen Butler, Sandra Cisneros, Andre Dubus, Ernest Gaines, Jamaica Kincaid, Antonya Nelson, Tim O'Brien, Ann Patchett, Annie Proulx, Tobias Wolff &break;&break;The voices of these authors and many others resonate from the pages–sometimes humorous, sometimes heartbreaking, but always illuminating. A thorough treatment of craft and accessibility to engaging authors make Building Blocks–the first volume in this exquisite new series–the perfect guidebook for your writing life.

The Glimmer Train Guide to Writing Fiction

Author : Susan Burmeister-Brown
Publisher : Writer's Digest Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Glimmer Train Stories

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781595530141
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (31 download)

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Writing Fiction

Author : Gotham Writers' Workshop
Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN 13 : 9781408101315
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Writing Fiction written by Gotham Writers' Workshop and published by Bloomsbury Academic. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Language, literature and biography.

The Longman Guide to Intermediate and Advanced Fiction Writing

Author : Sarah Stone
Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 9780205530120
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book The Longman Guide to Intermediate and Advanced Fiction Writing written by Sarah Stone and published by Longman Publishing Group. This book was released on 2007 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This intermediate/advanced guide to writing fiction emphasizes the revision process and uses craft discussions, exercises, and diverse examples to show the artistic implications of writing choices. This book addresses the major elements of fiction. Numerous examples, questions, and exercises throughout the book help students reflect upon and explore writing possibilities. The mini-anthology includes a variety of highly teachable, illustrative, and diverse stories--North American and international, contemporary and classic, realistic and experimental."--Publisher's website.

Writing Fiction

Author : Janet Burroway
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022661672X
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (266 download)

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Download or read book Writing Fiction written by Janet Burroway and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2019-04-01 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This updated edition of the classic, comprehensive guide to creative writing features new topics and writing prompts, contemporary examples, and more. A creative writer’s shelf should hold at least three essential books: a dictionary, a style guide, and Janet Burroway’s Writing Fiction. This best-selling classic is the most widely used creative writing text in America, and for decades it has helped hundreds of thousands of students learn the craft. Now in its tenth edition, Writing Fiction is more accessible than ever for writers of all levels—inside or outside the classroom. This new edition continues to provide advice that is practical, comprehensive, and flexible. Moving from freewriting to final revision, Burroway addresses “showing not telling,” characterization, dialogue, atmosphere, plot, imagery, and point of view. It includes new topics and writing prompts, and each chapter now ends with a list of recommended readings that exemplify the craft elements discussed. Plus, examples and quotations throughout the book feature a wide range of today’s best and best-known creators of both novels and short stories.

Flash Fiction International: Very Short Stories from Around the World

Author : James Thomas
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393352420
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (933 download)

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Download or read book Flash Fiction International: Very Short Stories from Around the World written by James Thomas and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2015-04-13 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dazzling new anthology of the very best very short fiction from around the world. What is a flash fiction called in other countries? In Latin America it is a micro, in Denmark kortprosa, in Bulgaria mikro razkaz. These short shorts, usually no more than 750 words, range from linear narratives to the more unusual: stories based on mathematical forms, a paragraph-length novel, a scientific report on volcanic fireflies that proliferate in nightclubs. Flash has always—and everywhere—been a form of experiment, of possibility. A new entry in the lauded Flash and Sudden Fiction anthologies, this collection includes 86 of the most beautiful, provocative, and moving narratives by authors from six continents, including best-selling writer Etgar Keret, Zimbabwean writer Petina Gappah, Korean screenwriter Kim Young-ha, Nobel Prize winner Czeslaw Milosz, and Argentinian “Queen of the Microstory” Ana María Shua, among many others. These brilliantly chosen stories challenge readers to widen their vision and celebrate both the local and the universal.

2012 Guide to Writing Competitions

Author : Robert Lee Brewer
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1599636050
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (996 download)

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Download or read book 2012 Guide to Writing Competitions written by Robert Lee Brewer and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-12-09 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you competitive? Do you believe that your writing stands above that of your peers? If so, then look inside and you'll find all the information you need to enter every major writing competition in the Unitied States. Hundreds of opportunities are listed, with each entry providing information on when and how to submit your work, what it costs (if anything) to participate, what the judges are looking for, when winners are selected, and what prizes are offered. If you believe in your work and think you have what it takes to outshine your peers, this is the refernece for you!

Hoi Polloi

Author : Robert McNulty Editor
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0615177603
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (151 download)

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Download or read book Hoi Polloi written by Robert McNulty Editor and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2007-11 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collaborative, non-profit anthology of literary submissions and the writing craft. Authors include: Nava Atlas, Dean Baris, Janet Bornstein, Paula J. Botch, Elizabeth Bullock, Sofija V. Canavan, Sally A. Connolly, Claire Cook, Katherine Critelli, Skip DeBrusk, Karyn Donahue, Bill Dunn, Harriet Emerson, Richard Fannoney, Robert Feeney, Dennis Feeney, Alessandra Fisher, Dave Fisher, Ralph Fletcher, Sarah Fox, Chris Fraas, Walter C. Frye, Elizabeth Evans Fryer, Frank M. Hynes, Marilyn Johnson, Robert Laplander, Valerie Lawson, Jamie Long, Heidi Marble, Mark McNulty, Robert McNulty, Richard Mills, Shea Mullaney, Erin O'Brien, Jay O'Callahan, April Parker, D. T. Pollard, Stephen Puleo, Chet Raymo, Jordan Rich, William Russo, Mike Ryan, Bob Sanchez, Jackson Sellers, Tucker Smallwood, Reed F. Stewart, Renee Summers, Michael Trainor, Kimmy Van Kooten, Caitlin Womersley, Alexander Woodbury and Virginia Young. The book encourages the 'writer in all of us' to become engaged in literary pursuits.

A Working Man's Apocrypha

Author : William Luvaas
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806138374
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (383 download)

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Download or read book A Working Man's Apocrypha written by William Luvaas and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cutting-edge fiction that breathes life into unlikely characters

By Cunning and Craft

Author : Peter Selgin
Publisher : Writer's Digest Books
ISBN 13 : 9781582974910
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (749 download)

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Download or read book By Cunning and Craft written by Peter Selgin and published by Writer's Digest Books. This book was released on 2007-02-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten Lessons for the Fiction Writer &break;&break;Writing successful fiction is a balance between trusting one's own instincts and making the right conscious choices. In By Cunning & Craft, award-winning novelist and short-story writer Peter Selgin shows you how to combine the instinctive process of creation with sound technical ingenuity. &break;&break;With precise instruction and examples from classic and best-selling works, this authoritative guide helps you master the ten essential fiction-writing elements: inspiration; character; point of view; structure and plot; theme; dialogue; description; scenes, summary, and flashback; voice and style; and revision. &break;&break;Whether you're facing the blank pages of a first draft or trying to revise a completed manuscript, By Cunning & Craft provides you with the guidance you need to outfox common writing pitfalls and make sure your work isn't wanting in wit - or perfection.

Deepening Fiction

Author : Sarah Stone
Publisher : Longman
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Deepening Fiction written by Sarah Stone and published by Longman. This book was released on 2005 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A section on the writing life includes candid discussions of writer's block, talent, habit, rejection, publication, and endurance to help aspiring professionals develop sustainable lives as writers."--Jacket.

The Writer's Portable Mentor

Author : Priscilla Long
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
ISBN 13 : 0826360068
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book The Writer's Portable Mentor written by Priscilla Long and published by University of New Mexico Press. This book was released on 2018-09-15 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed to mentor writers at all levels, from beginning to quite advanced, The Writer’s Portable Mentor offers a wealth of insight and crafting models from the author’s twenty-plus years of teaching and creative thought. The book provides tools for structuring a book, story, or essay. It trains writers in observation and in developing a poet’s ear for sound in prose. It scrutinizes the sentence strategies of the masters and offers advice on how to publish. This second edition is updated to account for changes in the publishing industry and provides hundreds of new craft models to inspire, guide, and develop every writer’s work.

179 Ways to Save a Novel

Author : Peter Selgin
Publisher : Writer's Digest Books
ISBN 13 : 9781582976075
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (76 download)

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Download or read book 179 Ways to Save a Novel written by Peter Selgin and published by Writer's Digest Books. This book was released on 2010-04-21 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looking for ways to fix your novel? Or: Is your fiction writing in peril? Based on real advice gleaned from thousands of writing critiques, 179 Ways to Save a Novel is more than a collection of ideas for troubleshooting your work-in-progress (though it holds plenty of practical writing advice). This inspiring guide doubles as a thoughtful examination of the writing life—and not just with respect to writing, but to the reading habits and thought processes of writers. The 179 meditations in this book are grouped under six headings: Substance Structure Style Symbol, Myth & Metaphor Soul and Other Matters Dip into the book at random when in need of nonspecific advice, inspiration, or criticism. Or read it straight through for a deeper examination of the writing life. However you encounter them, these meditations are guaranteed to challenge, inspire, provoke—and occasionally to tickle or annoy. But most of all they'll awaken a deeper awareness of the fiction writer's many challenges and thorny choices.

Sorry to Disrupt the Peace

Author : Patty Yumi Cottrell
Publisher : McSweeney's
ISBN 13 : 1944211314
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (442 download)

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Download or read book Sorry to Disrupt the Peace written by Patty Yumi Cottrell and published by McSweeney's. This book was released on 2017-06-24 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Helen Moran is thirty-two years old, single, childless, college-educated, and partially employed as a guardian of troubled young people in New York. She’s accepting a delivery from IKEA in her shared studio apartment when her uncle calls to break the news: Helen’s adoptive brother is dead. According to the internet, there are six possible reasons why her brother might have killed himself. But Helen knows better: she knows that six reasons is only shorthand for the abyss. Helen also knows that she alone is qualified to launch a serious investigation into his death, so she purchases a one-way ticket to Milwaukee. There, as she searches her childhood home and attempts to uncover why someone would choose to die, she will face her estranged family, her brother’s few friends, and the overzealous grief counselor, Chad Lambo; she may also discover what it truly means to be alive. A bleakly comic tour de force that’s by turns poignant, uproariously funny, and viscerally unsettling, this debut novel has shades of Bernhard, Beckett and Bowles—and it announces the singular voice of Patty Yumi Cottrell.

Now Write! Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror

Author : Laurie Lamson
Publisher : TarcherPerigee
ISBN 13 : 039916555X
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (991 download)

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Download or read book Now Write! Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror written by Laurie Lamson and published by TarcherPerigee. This book was released on 2014-02-20 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Featuring speculative fiction-writing exercises from Harlan Ellison, Piers Anthony, Ramsey Campbell, Jack Ketchum, screenwriters of The Twilight Zone and Star Trek: The Next Generation, and many more. The fifth volume in the acclaimed Now Write! writing-guide series offers a full toolbox of advice and exercises for speculative fiction writers hoping to craft an engaging alternate reality, flesh out an enthralling fantasy quest, or dream up a bloodcurdling plot twist, including: -Harlan Ellison, on crafting the perfect story title -Jack Ketchum, on how economy of language helps create a truly frightening tale -Piers Antony, on making fantastical characters feel genuine and relatable This collection of storytelling secrets from top genre writers-including winners of Nebula, Hugo, Edgar, and Bram Stoker awards-is essential for any writer looking to take a leap beyond the ordinary"--