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Telling stories : the craft of narrative and the writing life /
"A prolific and award-winning writer, Lee Martin has put pen to paper to offer his wisdom, honed during thirty years of teaching the oh-so-elusive art of writing. Telling Stories is intended for anyone interested in thinking more about the elements of storytelling in short stories, novels, and...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lincoln :
University of Nebraska Press,
2017.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part 1, Structure: Once upon a Time; Writing the Opening of a Short Story; Juggling Balls: An Exercise for Opening a Short Story; Using Mystery to Open Your Story; Trouble? I've Seen Trouble; Making a Scene; The Inevitable Surprise; Framing the Story; Character and Incident; I Didn't Expect That; One Way to Structure a Memoir; Organizing the Memoir; The Layers of Memoir; I Was Wearing Them the Day; Yogi Berra and the Art of Flash Nonfiction; Mad Libs for Creative Nonfiction.
- Enough about Me, Tell Me What You Think about MeShrinking a Novel; Preparing the Final Scene by Avoiding Conflict; Here We Are at the End; Taking Care at the End; Part 2 Characterization: There Were Three Little Pigs; On a Mother's Birthday, a Writer Loves the World; Tightening the Screws; Contradictory Characters; Odd Couples; Characterization in the Personal Essay; Creating Richer Characters; The Art of the Snark; Part 3 Detail: A House of Straw, a House of Sticks, a House of Bricks; My Mother Gives Me a Writing Lesson; Get the Particulars Right; Know Your Place; That Kind of Place.
- Nostalgia and the MemoiristA Detail and All It Can Do; The Places We Know; Daydreaming Your Memoir; The Heart's Field; Oh, Those Pesky Facts; Memoir and the Work of Resurrection; Using Photos in Memoir; Ordinary Details in Memoir; Connecting Particulars; Context; Part 4 Point of View: "Little Pig, Little Pig, Let Me Come In"; Your Point of View Choice Creates the Effect of the Story; The Inner Story of the Writer's Thinking; Finding a Different Lens; Memoir and the Future; Living Full; Into the Fire; Part 5 Language: "Not by the Hair of My Chinny Chin Chin"; Stylin'
- The Value of a Beautiful SentenceThe Art of the Twerk; Communal and Personal Voices; Voice in Creative Nonfiction; Personae and Tone in Fiction; Paying Attention to Form in Flash Nonfiction; The Kite; The Thing Said; Alligators and Marshmallows; Comedy in Fiction; Part 6 Revision: And the Third Little Pig Lived Happily Ever After; Taking Flight; Felt Sense; More Revision Activities; The Doorway between Memoir and Fiction; Proverbs for Revising a Novel; Part 7 The Writing Life: The Two Little Pigs Now Felt Sorry for Having Been So Lazy and Built Their Houses with Bricks.
- My Mother's Gifts to MeMy Aunt among the Rocks; Five Ways We Keep Ourselves from Writing; Five Things All Writers Can Control; Reading Like a Writer; Writing to Preserve; Travel and the Writer; Slowing Down; Our Quiet Places; What Fills Us; The Books and the Boys of Summer; A Writer Writes; Defeating Writer's Block; Ten Thoughts on the Writing Life; Keep Facing the Blank Page.