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Creative Writing: Four Genres in Brief

by: David Starkey

Creative Writing: Four Genres in Brief

by: David Starkey

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ISBN 10:
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Edition: 3rd
Format: Hardcover
Copyright: 12/16/2016
Publisher: BEDFORD BOOKS
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Summary

Outlining the basics of composing and crafting each genre, Creative Writing: Four Genres in Brief teaches you to write poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and drama through the use of short models in order to get you writing in all genres during a single course.

Author Biography

David Starkey is Professor of English and Director of the Creative Writing Program at Santa Barbara City College. He is the editor of two collections of creative writing pedagogy, Teaching Writing Creatively (1998) and Genre by Example: Writing What We Teach (2001), and he has been active in all four genres. His poetry collections include Adventures of the Minor Poet (2007); Ways of Being Dead: New and Selected Poems (2006); and Fear of Everything (2000). Several poems from his most recent collection, A Few Things You Should Know about the Weasel (2010) were featured on Garrison Keillor’s The Writer’s Almanac. His fiction has appeared in American Literary Review, Rio Grande Review, Sou’wester, and in the anthology Blue Cathedral: Contemporary Fiction for the New Millennium. His creative nonfiction has been published in Cimarron Review, Gulf Stream Magazine, Tampa Review, and in the book Living Blue in the Red States (2007), which he edited. His plays have been produced in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Seattle, Minneapolis, Toronto, and elsewhere.

Preface: A Few Words to Instructors
A Few Things You Should Know About Creative Writing
A Few Words About Revision

1       Writing Poetry
A Few Things You Should Know about Poetry
The Elements of Poetry
The Short Poem: Three Models
             Gail White, “My Personal Recollections of Not Being Asked to the Prom”
             Ruth Stone, “Winter”
             Rae Armantrout, “Duration”
Lines and Stanzas
Meter and Rhythm
The Music of Poetry
Images, Symbols and Figurative Language
Diction, Syntax and the Language of Poetry
               Poetic Forms
Sonnet / Villanelle / Rondeau/ Rodelet/ Triolet/ Sestina/ Cinquain/ Haiku / Pantoum / Cento/ Ghazal
                Prose Poetry
Getting Started Writing Poetry
>Kick-Starts: Beginning Your Poems

2 Writing the Short-Short Story

A Few Things You Should Know about the Short-Short Story
The Elements of Fiction
The Short-Short Story: Three Models
                    Isaac Babel, “Crossing the River Zbrucz”
                    Donald Barthelme, “The Baby”
New             Bonnie Jo Campbell, “Rhyme Game”
Structure and Design
Creating Characters
Writing Dialogue
Setting the Scene
Deciding on Point of View, Developing Tone and Style
                     First-Person Point of View / Second-Person Point of View / Third-Person Limited Point of View / Third-Person Omniscient Point of View / Tense / Tone and Style
Getting Started Writing the Short-Short Story
>Kick-Starts: Beginning Your Story

3  Writing Creative Nonfiction

A Few Things You Should Know about Short Creative Nonfiction

The Elements of Creative Nonfiction
Short Creative Nonfiction: Three Models
                       Rebecca McClanahan, “Liferower”
                       Brian Doyle, “Joyas Voladoras”
                       David Sedaris, “Jesus Shaves”
Organizing Creative Nonfiction
Telling the Truth
Creative Nonfiction as Narrative
                      Character / Dialogue / Scene-Setting
The Poetry of Creative Nonfiction
                         Imagery and Figurative Language / Diction / Sound and Rhythm
Writing Yourself into Creative Nonfiction
Ethics and Edicts
Getting Started Writing Short Creative Nonfiction
>Kick-Starts: Beginning Your Creative Nonfiction

An Anthology of Short Creative Nonfiction
                        Diane Ackerman, “The Mute Sense”
                       James Brown, “My Papa’s Waltz”
                        Edwidge Danticat, “Westbury Court”
                        Joan Didion, “In Bed”
New                 Barry Lopez, “The Raven”
                        Dinty W. Moore, “El Toro Rojo”
                        Aimee Nezhukumatathil, “The Witching Hour”
New                John T. Price, “The Burnt Plane”
New                Gary Soto, “First Love”
                        Alice Walker, “Dreads”

A Few Words About Getting Your Work Published and Produced

New A Few Words about Hybrid Creative Writing
New Sabrina Orah Mark, It’s Dark in There: Confessions of a Prose Poem

A Few Words of Farewell

Glossary
Index

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