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LaPlante, Alice, |
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1958- |
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The making of a story : |
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a Norton guide to creative writing / |
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Alice LaPlante. |
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1st ed. |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc. |
New York : |
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W.W. Norton, |
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c2007. |
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677 p. ; |
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25 cm. |
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| Bibliography, etc. note |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 647-655) and index. |
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Acknowledgments -- |
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ch.1. |
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What is this thing called creative writing? -- |
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pt. 1. |
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The basics -- |
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Getting started -- |
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Reconciling the method with the madness -- |
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Some basic definitions -- |
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Creative nonfiction : a working definition -- |
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Writing that is surprising yet convincing -- |
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Resisting paraphrase -- |
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Creative nonfiction : capturing what has eluded capture -- |
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On sentiment and sentimentality -- |
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Our first job as writers : to notice -- |
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Avoiding the "writerly" voice -- |
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pt. 2. |
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Exercises -- |
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Exercise 1 : "I don't know why I remember ..." -- |
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Exercise 2 : I am a camera -- |
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pt. 3. |
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Reading as a writer -- |
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"On keeping a notebook" / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Joan Didion --- |
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"Emergency" / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Denis Johnson -- |
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ch. 2. |
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The splendid gift of not knowing -- |
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pt. 1. |
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Writing as discovery -- |
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Getting started -- |
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What do you know? -- |
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Creative nonfiction : making the ordinary extraordinary -- |
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Writing down what you don't know (about what you know) -- |
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On rendering, not solving, the mysteries that surround us -- |
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Moving from "triggering" to real subject -- |
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Surprise yourself, interest others -- |
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Obsession as a creative virtue -- |
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pt. 2. |
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Exercises -- |
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Exercise 1 : Things I was taught/things I was not taught -- |
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Exercise 2 : I want to know why -- |
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pt. 3. |
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Reading as a writer -- |
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"Where are you going, where have you been?" / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Joyce Carol Oates -- |
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"Welcome to cancerland" / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Barbara Ehrenreich. |
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ch. 3. |
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Details, details -- |
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pt. 1. |
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Concrete details as the basic building blocks of good creative writing -- |
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Getting started -- |
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On thinking small -- |
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Defining "images" within a literary context -- |
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Imagery that works on two levels -- |
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On seeing the general in the particular -- |
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On crowding the reader out of his own space -- |
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Don't lose any of your senses -- |
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Use of concrete details in creative nonfiction -- |
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Use and abuse of metaphor -- |
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When should you use metaphor? -- |
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Avoiding the "S" word : banishing conscious symbols from your writing -- |
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Imagery as creative source -- |
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pt. 2. |
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Exercises -- |
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Exercise 1 : Harper's Index on a personal level -- |
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Exercise 2 : Render a tree, capture the forest -- |
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pt. 3. |
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Reading as a writer -- |
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"The |
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things they carried" / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Tim O'Brien -- |
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"Nebraska" / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Ron Hansen. |
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| Miscellaneous information |
ch. 4. |
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The shapely story -- |
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pt. 1. |
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Defining the short story -- |
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Getting started -- |
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Some basic definitions -- |
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The conflict-crisis-resolution model -- |
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Linear vs. modular stories -- |
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To epiphany or not to epiphany? -- |
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Is change necessary? (the debate continues) -- |
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On not becoming slaves to theory -- |
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pt. 2. |
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Exercises -- |
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Exercise 1 : False epiphanies I have had -- |
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Exercise 2 : Opportunities not taken -- |
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pt. 3. |
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Reading as a writer -- |
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"What makes a short story?" / |
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Francine Prose -- |
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"Helping" / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Robert Stone -- |
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ch. 5. |
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Why you need to show and tell -- |
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pt. 1. |
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The importance of narration -- |
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Getting started -- |
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Some basic definitions -- |
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Why "show not tell" is such common advice -- |
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The show-and-tell balancing act -- |
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Traditional uses of narration (telling) -- |
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Why narration is such an important creative tool -- |
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How showing and telling complement each other -- |
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Good intentions, bad advice -- |
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The showing-telling continuum -- |
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Showing and telling in creative nonfiction -- |
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pt. 2. |
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Exercises -- |
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Exercise 1 : Tell me a story -- |
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Exercise 2 : What everyone knows/What I know -- |
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pt. 3. |
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Reading as a writer -- |
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"Brownies" / |
| Statement of responsibility |
ZZ Packer -- |
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"Winner take nothing" / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Bernard Cooper. |
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| Miscellaneous information |
ch. 6. |
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Who's telling this story, anyway? -- |
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pt. 1. |
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Introduction to point of view -- |
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Getting started -- |
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Some basic definitions -- |
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First person -- |
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Whose story is it? -- |
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Second person -- |
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Third person -- |
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A word about attitude -- |
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Distance and point of view -- |
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Shifts in narrative distance -- |
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Choosing a point of view for your creative work -- |
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Point of view and creative nonfiction -- |
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Common point of view problems -- |
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pt. 2. |
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Exercises -- |
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Exercise 1 : Change point of view and dance -- |
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Exercise 2 : Using point of view as a way "in" to difficult material -- |
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pt. 3. |
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Reading as a writer -- |
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"The |
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lady with the little dog" / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Anton Chekhov -- |
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"Moonrise" / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Penny Wolfson -- |
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ch. 7. |
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How reliable is this narrator? -- |
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pt. 1. |
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How point of view affects our understanding of a story -- |
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Getting started -- |
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How we judge the integrity of the stories we hear and read -- |
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First person point of view and reliability -- |
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Third person point of view and reliability -- |
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pt. 2. |
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Exercises -- |
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Exercise 1 : He said, she said -- |
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Exercise 2 : See what I see, hear what I hear -- |
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pt. 3. |
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Reading as a writer -- |
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"The |
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swimmer" / |
| Statement of responsibility |
John Cheever -- |
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ch. 8. |
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You talking to me? -- |
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pt. 1. |
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Crafting effective dialogue -- |
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Getting started -- |
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What dialogue is good for -- |
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What dialogue is not -- |
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A word about attribution -- |
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Five important tips on dialogue -- |
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On subtext -- |
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A word about dialect -- |
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Using placeholders -- |
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Dialogue in creative nonfiction -- |
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pt. 2. |
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Exercises -- |
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Exercise 1 : Nonverbal communication -- |
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Exercise 2 : Them's fighting words -- |
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pt. 3. |
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Reading as a writer -- |
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"Hills like white elephants" / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Ernest Hemingway -- |
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"Inside the bunker" / |
| Statement of responsibility |
John Sack. |
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| Miscellaneous information |
ch. 9. |
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The plot thickens -- |
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pt. 1. |
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Figuring out what happens next -- |
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Getting started -- |
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Story vs. plot : some basic definitions -- |
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A word about causality -- |
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Render how -- don't try to answer why -- |
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On metafiction -- |
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Character-based plotting -- |
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On conflict -- |
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Analyzing plot points -- |
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Avoiding Sc�enes �a Faire : recognizing clich�ed plot twists -- |
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pt. 2. |
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Exercises -- |
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Exercise 1 : What's behind the door of room 101? -- |
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Exercise 2 : "By the time you read this ..." -- |
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pt. 3. |
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Reading as a writer -- |
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"Sonny's blues" / |
| Statement of responsibility |
James Baldwin -- |
| Miscellaneous information |
ch. 10. |
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Recognizable people -- |
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pt. 1. |
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Creating surprising-yet-convincing characters -- |
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Getting started -- |
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Flat vs. round characters -- |
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Eschewing the general in favor of the particular -- |
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Consistency as the hobgoblin of characters -- |
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Ways of defining character -- |
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Character and plot -- |
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Wants and needs -- |
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Characters in relationships -- |
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Character in creative nonfiction -- |
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pt. 2. |
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Exercises -- |
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Exercise 1 : Emptying pockets -- |
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Exercise 2 : Sins of commissions/Sins of omission -- |
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Exercise 3 : Seven or eight things I know about him/her -- |
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pt. 3. |
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Reading as a writer -- |
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"Surrounded by sleep" / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Akhil Sharma -- |
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"No name woman" / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Maxine Hong Kingston. |
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| Miscellaneous information |
ch. 11. |
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Raising the curtain -- |
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pt. 1. |
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Beginning your story, novel, or nonfiction piece -- |
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Getting started -- |
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Your contract with the reader -- |
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Characteristics of a good opening -- |
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Unbalancing acts -- |
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Starting in the middle -- |
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Beginning with action -- |
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On the nature of suspense -- |
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Beginning your creative nonfiction piece -- |
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pt. 2. |
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Exercises -- |
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Exercise 1 : Give it your best shot -- |
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Exercise 2 : Start in the middle -- |
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Exercise 3 : Make them squirm -- |
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pt. 3. |
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Reading as a writer -- |
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"People like that are the only people here : canonical babbling in Peed Onk" / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Lorrie Moore -- |
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ch. 12. |
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What's this creative work really about? -- |
| Miscellaneous information |
pt. 1. |
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The art of transferring true emotions onto sensory events -- |
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Getting started -- |
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Many different answers to the same question -- |
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Writing about what matters -- |
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Transference : borrowing from Freud -- |
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We are made of dust -- |
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The road to universality -- |
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But it's the truth! and other common pleas for clemency -- |
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Creative nonfiction : on being true as well as factual -- |
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Making things carry more emotional weight than they logically should -- |
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Transference and creative nonfiction -- |
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pt. 2. |
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Exercises -- |
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Exercise 1 : Getting an image to spill its secrets -- |
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Exercise 2 : What I lost -- |
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pt. 3. |
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Reading as a writer -- |
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"Ralph the duck" / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Frederick Busch -- |
| Miscellaneous information |
"The |
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knife" / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Richard Selzer. |
| 505 00 - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Miscellaneous information |
ch. 13. |
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Learning to fail better -- |
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pt. 1. |
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On revision -- |
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Getting started -- |
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Advice for writers from writers -- |
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Perfection is our enemy -- |
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The workshop method -- |
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Undue influence : a cautionary tale -- |
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The developmental stages of a creative work -- |
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"Hot spots" and other noteworthy aspects of an early draft -- |
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An exercise-based approach to deep revision -- |
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A word about constraints -- |
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pt. 2. |
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Exercises -- |
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Analytical/mechanical exercises -- |
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Creative exercises -- |
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Research-based exercises -- |
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Chance-based exercises -- |
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Revision example : "The company of men" / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Jan Ellison -- |
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pt. 3. |
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Reading as a writer -- |
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"Shitty first drafts" / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Anne Lamott -- |
| Miscellaneous information |
"The |
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Carver chronicles" / |
| Statement of responsibility |
D.T. Max -- |
| Miscellaneous information |
"The |
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bath" / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Raymond Carver -- |
| Miscellaneous information |
"A |
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small, good thing" / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Raymond Carver -- |
| Miscellaneous information |
ch. 14. |
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Getting beyond facts to truth -- |
| Miscellaneous information |
pt. 1. |
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Some final thoughts on creative nonfiction -- |
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Getting started -- |
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Just the facts, ma'am -- |
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Recollections and re-creations -- |
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Ethical considerations -- |
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Subjectivity vs. objectivity -- |
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A trip of self-discovery -- |
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To be in or out of the story? -- |
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pt. 2. |
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Reading as a writer -- |
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"Learning to drive" / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Katha Pollitt -- |
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Glossary-- |
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Bibliography -- |
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List of stories -- |
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Permissions -- |
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Index. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc. |
A guide to creative writing that introduces readers to each stage of the creative writing process and helps them build their writing skills through exercises and real-life examples. |
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English language |
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Rhetoric |
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Handbooks, manuals, etc. |
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English language |
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Style |
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Handbooks, manuals, etc. |
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Creative writing |
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Handbooks, manuals, etc. |
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Report writing |
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Handbooks, manuals, etc. |
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Table of contents only |
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