Creative Writer'S Handbook
ISBN: 9780131893719 | 0131893718
Edition: 4thFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Pub. Date: 1/1/2005
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This handbook is the perfect reference for beginning creative writers. It offers abundant illustrations, exercises, and useful techniques in all genres. While emphasizing problem-solving and the mastery of literary conventions, this handbook also takes the apprentice writer on a journey from inspiration to revision.Explores the work of ¿classic¿ modern as well as active contemporary writers through examples of effective stories, essays, poems and plays. An extensive look at fundamental creative writing issues includes attitudes, habits, journal... MORE
| A Writer's Concerns | |
| Working like a Writer | |
| Keeping a Journal | |
| Point of View | |
| Rhody's Path | |
| Language Is Your Medium | |
| Invention and Research | |
| Ellis Island: Then and Now | |
| The Concerns of the Poet | |
| The Elements of Poetry | |
| Practicing Poetry | |
| Poetry Problems | ... MORE |
| The Concerns of the Storyteller | |
| The Elements of Fiction | |
| Narration and Its Problems | |
| Creative Nonfiction | |
| Stories and Memoirs | |
| The Thing with Willie | |
| A Very Short Story | |
| The Boarding House,James Joyce | |
| Sunday in the Park | |
| The First Day | |
| Just Married | |
| Chinese Medicine | |
| Close Encounters of the Sneaky Kind | |
| The Concerns of the Playwright | |
| The Elements of Drama | |
| Dialogue and Its Problems | |
| The Day They Shot John Lennon | |
| Plays and Screen Plays | |
| Procedure | |
| Last Day of Camp | |
| The Writer's Business | |
| From Revision to Submission | |
| Tools and Resources | |
| Glossary of Key Terms | |
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