What If? Writing Exercises for Fiction Writers

AvAnne Bernays,Pamela Pamela

Häftad, Engelska, 2010

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Organized by the elements of fiction and comprised primarily of writing exercises, this text helps students hone and refine their craft with a practical, hands-on approach to writing fiction.

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Utgivningsdatum:2010-06-16
Mått:100 x 100 x 100 mm
Vikt:100 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:472
Upplaga:3
Förlag:Pearson Education
ISBN:9780205616886

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<> Contents Preface IntroductionPART ONEBeginnings1. First Sentences: Beginning in the Middle2. Second Sentences as Different Paths3. Ways to Begin a Story, from Robie Macauley4. Begin a Story with a “Given” First Line, from William Kittredge5. Free Associating from Random Sentences, from DeWitt Henry6. Person, Place, and Song, from Ron Carlson7. Stirring Up a Fiction Stew8. The Newspaper Muse: Ann Landers and the National Enquirer9. Taking Risks PART TWOCharacterization10. Oh! . . . That Sort of Person11. What Do You Know About Your Characters?12. Props13. What Do Your Characters Want?14. Making Heroes Flawed, from Douglas Bauer15. Creating a Character’s Background, Place, Setting, and Milieu, from Robie Macauley16. Put Your Characters to Work17. The Morning After18. He/She: Switching Gender PART THREEPerspective, Distance, and Point of View19. First Person or Third20. John Gardner on Psychic Distance21. Shifts in Point of View22. An Early Memory, Part One: The Child as Narrator23. An Early Memory, Part Two: The Reminiscent Narrator24. The Unreliable Narrator25. Family Stories, Family MythsPART FOURDialogue26. Speech Flavor, or Sounding Real, from Thalia Selz27. Telling Talk: When to Use Dialogue or Summarized Dialogue28. Who Said That?29. The Invisible Scene: Interspersing Dialogue with Action30. A Verbal Dance: Not Quite a FightPART FIVEThe Interior Landscape of Your Characters31. The Interior Landscape of Vision and Obsession32. What Mayhem or Scene Is Happening Elsewhere?33. “I Know Just What She’ll Say”34. Mixed Motives and Maybes35. The Need to Know: The Solace of Imagination36. The Inside/Outside Story37. Five Years from Now.....38. Dream Work39. The Power of “Seemed” and “Probably”PART SIXPlot40. The Skeleton41. From Situation to Plot42. Peter Rabbit and Adam and Eve: The Elements of Plot, from Thomas Fox Averill43. What If? How to Develop and Finish Stories44. There’s a Party and You’re Invited, from Margot Livesey45. So, What Happened?46. Flash Forward: or Little Did I Know47. Plot Potential48. Back Story as Narrative Summary: Who’s Coming to Stay the Night49. The End ForetoldPART SEVENThe Elements of Style50. A Style of Your Own, from Rod Kessler51. Taboos: Weak Adverbs and Adjectives52. Word Packages Are Not Gifts53. Practice Writing Good, Clean Prose, from Christopher KeanePART EIGHTA Writer’s Toolbox54. Handling the Problems of Time and Pace, from Robie Macauley55. The Pet Story: Exposition, from Ron Carlson56. Bringing Abstract Ideas to Life57. Transportation: Getting There isn’t Half the Fun—It’s Boring58. Naming the Diner, Naming the Diet, Naming the Dog59. Transitions: Or White Space Does Not a Transition Make60. How to Keep a Narrative Moving Forward61. Noises Off: The Beauty of Extraneous Sound, from Laurence Davies62. Separating Author, Narrator, and Character, from Frederick Reiken63. Time Travel64. Stairs: Setting and Place65. Titles and Keys PART NINEInvention and a Bit of Inspiration66. Illustrations, from Margot Livesey67. Bully68. Far away Places69. Story Swap: From Jordan Dann and the Aspen Writers’ Foundation70. Humor: an Intact Frog71. Sunday: Discovering Emotional Triggers72. Kill the Dog73. Five Different Versions: And Not One Is a Lie74. What You Carry75. Psycho: Creating Terror76. One in the Hand77. Notes and Letters78. The Chain Story PART TENRevision: Rewriting Is Writing79. Opening Up Your Story80. Gifts to Yourself81. Show and Tell: There’s a Reason It’s Called Storytelling, from Carol-Lynn Marrazzo82. A Little Gardening, A Little Surgery83. Magnifying Conflict, from David Ray84. What’s at Stake? from Ken Rivard85. It Ain’t Over Till It’s Over86. The Double Ending: Two Points in Time87. In-Class Revision PART ELEVENSudden, Flash, Micro, Nano: Writing the Short Short Story88. Sudden Fiction, from James Thomas89. Write a Story Using a Small Unit of Time90. Solving for X, from Ron Carlson91. The Journey of the Long Sentence92. He said/She said: But About What!93. Rules of the Game94. Ten to One, from Hester Kaplan95. Make a List96. Questions. Some Answers97. How to . . . . . .98. NanofictionsPART TWELVELearning from the Greats99. Finding Inspiration in Other Sources—Poetry, Nonfiction, etc.100. The Sky’s the Limit: Homage to Kafka and García Márquez, from Christopher Noël101. Learning from the Greats102. Borrowing Characters103. What Keeps You Reading?104. The Literary Scene Circa 1893, 1929, 1948, or?, from George Garrett PART THIRTEENNotebooks, Journals, and Memory105. Who Are You? Somebody!106. People From the Past: Characters of the Future107. An Image Notebook, from Melanie Rae Thon108. Journal Keeping for Writers, from William Melvin Kelley109. Creative Wrong Memory110. Let Us Write LettersPART FOURTEENA Collection of Short Short StoriesLINDA BREWER 20/20 ANTONIA CLARK Excuses I Have Already UsedBRIAN HINSHAW The CustodianMARIETTE LIPPO Confirmation NamesMELISSA MCCRACKEN It Would’ve Been HotJUDITH CLAIRE MITCHELL My Mother’s GiftsPAMELA PAINTER The New YearGRACE PALEY WantsBRUCE HOLLAND ROGERS How Could a MotherELIZABETH TALLENT No One’s a MysteryLUISA VALENZUELA Vision Out of the Corner of One EyePART FIFTEENA Collection of Short Stories CHARLES BAXTER GryphonRON CARLSON Some of Our Work with MonstersRAYMOND CARVER CathedralSANDRA CISNEROS ElevenMICHAEL CUNNINGHAM White AngelDAGOBERTO GILB The PillowsPAM HOUSTON How to Talk to a HunterHESTER KAPLAN WOULD YOU KNOW IT WASN’T LOVE?BOBBIE ANN MASON ShilohTHOMAS MCNEELY SheepALICE MUNRO Five PointsZZ Packer BrowniesRICHARD RUSSO The Whore’s ChildJENNIFER SHAFF Leave of AbsenceKATE WHEELER Under the Roof Selected Bibliography About the Contributors of Exercises Credits Index