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Once Upon a Time in the Twenty-First Century : Unexpected Exercises in Creative Writing /
""Once upon a Time in the Twenty-First Century" is an innovative, inspirational, and unique creative writing textbook/handbook that fills many educational needs and gaps. Designed to appeal to a wide range of readers and writers - from teenagers to young adults, from grade nine throug...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Tuscaloosa :
The University of Alabama Press,
[2021]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- Part I. Genres and forms galore : I'll put a spell on you / Pia Simone Garber, A.B. Gorham, Megan Paonessa, and Betsy Seymour
- Bake a cake in an earthquake: how-to guides and process descriptions / Pia Simone Garber, A.B. Gorham, Megan Paonessa, and Betsy Seymour
- Guidebooks galore! Chart uncharted places / Pia Simone Garber, A.B. Gorham, Megan Paonessa, and Betsy Seymour
- Postcard stories / Zachary Doss, Meredith Noseworthy, and Bethany Startin
- Creative nonfiction / Kenny Kruse
- Tropes unlimited: genre fiction / Kristin Aardsma and Brian Oliu
- Where Frankenstein meets Frodo, part one: creating a character for genre fiction by creating their facebook page / Kristin Aardsma and Brian Oliu
- Where Frankenstein meets Frodo, part two: our hero's hundred-story hotel and other settings for your genre fiction character / Kristin Aardsma and Brian Oliu
- What's your alibi? / Jessie Bailey, Jesse Delong, A.B. Gorham, and Lisa Tallin
- Interviews: for groups large and small / Jenny Gropp and Stephen Hess
- Once upon a time in the twenty-first century: retelling fairy tales / Pia Simone Garber
- "Is he for real?": character-based flash fiction, part one: defining a character through action and dialogue / Katie Berger, Laura Kochman, and Brandi Wells
- "Is he for real?": character-based flash fiction, part two: defining a character through an unexpected setting / Katie Berger, Laura Kochman, and Brandi Wells
- Collaboration with fly: learning from Lydia Davis / Stephen Hess
- The relationship between truth and fiction / Ashley Chambers, Annie Hartnett, and Christopher McCarter
- Little novels / Jessie Bailey and Pia Simone Garber
- It is by chance that we meet: writing a one-act play through collaboration / Alex Czaja, Romy Feder, and Stephen Thomas
- Quick found-language sonnets / Molly Goldman, Kenny Kruse, and Sally Rodgers
- Social network haiku / Chapin Gray and Kirk Pinho
- Rhymes real cool: studies in rap lyrics / Christopher McCarter
- Oral poetry: the physical landscape of your poetic voice / Curtis Rutherford
- Collaborative Ghazal / Chapin Gray and Kirk Pinho
- Collaborative Abecedarian (for up to twenty-six writers) / Sally Rodgers
- The Triolet / Pia Simone Garber
- Oh, ode! / Leia Wilson
- Sestinas: six words, obsessed! / Chapin Gray, Jenny Gropp, and Kirk Pinho
- Nonce, not nonsense: poetry meets the future / Jenny Gropp and Emma Sovich
- Poetry from math: the fib and beyond / Jenny Gropp and Emma Sovich
- Pillow book lists: observing experience for creative nonfiction / Katie Berger and Pia Simone Garber
- A travel guide of the self / Katie Berger and Pia Simone Garber
- Expert expertise: the art of the unlikely, opinionated review / Katie Berger and Pia Simone Garber
- Part II. Ye olde language lets loose : TNT prose: explodable, expandable text / Jenny Gropp and Kirsten Jorgenson
- Take it away: erasure / Jenny Gropp and Kirsten Jorgenson
- Ye olde language made new: "false" translation / Jenny Gropp
- Sounds into words, words into sounds / Molly Goldman
- Starting from a song, part one: remixing a song in writing / Tasha Coryell and Steve Reaugh
- Starting from a song, part two: under the (musical) influence / Tasha Coryell and Steve Reaugh
- Balderdash for writers: new stories from an old box / Jessie Delong and Megan Paonessa
- Disaster city: a facebook-y adventure / Rachel Adams, Jessie Bailey, and Kirsten Jorgenson
- Consequences: a parlor game of surprise narratives / Kit Emslie and Sarah Kelly
- Constraints, odd characters, and secret postcards: a fresh approach to character and context / Kirsten Jorgenson, Betsy Seymour, and Danilo Thomas
- Broken picture telephone: modernist poets meet the grade-school game of telephone / Rachel Adams, Pia Simone Garber, Kirsten Jorgenson, and Betsy Seymour
- Magazine shuffle: from image to character, narrative, and third-person-limited point of view / Rachel Adams, Pia Simone Garber, Kirsten Jorgenson, and Betsy Seymour
- Improv at the zombie diner: platform and dialogue / Holly Burdorff, Luke Percy, and Maggie Smith
- Comicpalooza: the art of the panel / Rachel Adams, Pia Simone Garber, Kirsten Jorgenson, and Betsy Seymour
- Fast talkers and faster writers: speed transcription / Chapin Gray, Brain Oliu, and Kirk Pinho
- Obsessions: seven ways / Kristin Aardsma and Breanne LeJeune
- Grand theft writing: swiped beginnings / Chapin Gray, Brian Oliu, and Kirk Pinho
- Crazy headlines and hyperlink chasing: finding and using a bizarre persona / Chapin Gray, Brian Oliu, and Kirk Pinho
- Genetically-modified Franken-poems / Chapin Gray and Breane LeJeune
- The exploding poem: how to keep on writing / Chapin Gray and Breanne LeJeune
- Nice hat. Thanks.: word-by-word poems / Kristin Aardsma, Breanne LeJeune, and Brian Oliu
- Translation mutation: using online plot generators and translators / Kristin Aardsma, Breanne LeJeune, and Brian Oliu
- Mad lib translations of Marquez / Jenny Gropp, Laura Kochman, and Jill Smith
- Pictures and words / Greg Houser and Emma Sovich
- The horse in motion: poems in response to photographs and paintings of motion / Jenny Gropp
- Book flip! Using found phrases / Jenny Gropp, Laura Kochman, and Jill Smith
- New takes on the news: obituaries, classifieds, and Dear Abby / Greg Houser, Jill Smith, and Jessica Trull
- Now with twenty billion readers: writing a Craigslist "missed connection" / Greg Houser, Jill Smith, and Jessica Trull
- From these old sayings to this fresh story: revamping cliche phrases and plots / Jesse Delong, Lisa Tallin, and Danilo Thomas
- Part III. Slews of styles and subjects : Realism: tips from Tom Wolfe and Flannery O'Connor / Krystin Gollihue
- World building: nonrealistic characters and a six-sentence story / Jess E. Jelsma and Matt Jones
- Rage against the creative writing machine: Dada in the house / Pia Simone Garber and Kirsten Jorgenson
- The Beats and scribbled secret notebooks: chosen words and automatic writing / Stephen Hess and Curtis Rutherford
- "I'm with you in rockland": "Howl" and praise poems / Stephen Hess and Curtis Rutherford
- A call to arms: rally the troops / Curtis Rutherford
- Stealing tone: picking up where your favorite authors left off / Molly Goldman
- A journal of particulars: become a zen master of your senses / Jenny Gropp and Kirsten Jorgenson
- When garlic has hips: food writing and personification / Jenny Gropp and Kirsten Jorgenson
- Pets of the Roman Empire, dinosaurs of today: avoiding the cute kitty cat when writing about animals / Kirk Pinho
- Perilous points of view: giant toads! Cockroaches! / Jessie Bailey, Kesse Delong, A.B. Gorham, and Lisa Tallin
- When the wrecking ball falls in love: reviving an inanimate object / Jessie Bailey, Jesse Delong, A.B. Gorham, and Lisa Tallin
- The fairest of them all: talking to objects for a reason / Theodora Ziolkowski
- Time for rhyme / Pia Simone Garber, Jenny Gropp, Leia Wilson, and Emma Sovich
- Love poems and refrains: better than "lemon ice" / Pia Simone Garber and Curtis Rutherford
- Death poems: the tragic and the comic / Pia Simone Garber and Curtis Rutherford
- Political poems: Big Brother is watching you! / Pia Simone Garber and Curtis Rutherford
- Things that go bump in the night: reappropriating stock vampires, witches, zombies, and other creatures for a twenty-first century scare / Tasha Coryell, Freya Gibbon, Molly Goldman, Krystin Gollihue, Jess E.
- Jelsma, Matt Jones, Meredith Noseworthy, Steve Reaugh, Sally Rodgers, and Bethany Startin
- The adult as villain / Annie Hartnett
- Objects and elements: set your imagination loose! / Megan Paonessa and Danilo Thomas
- Weapons of voice: practicing long and short sentence styles / Jesse Delong, Lisa Tallin, and Danilo Thomas
- Exercises in style: the endless possibilities of language / Jenny Gropp
- The N+7 game: from "The Snow Man" to "The Soap Mandible" / Jenny Gropp, Laura Kochman, and Jill Smith
- Cramming it in: jamming narrative into a short space / Katie Berger, Laura Kochman, and Brandi Wells
- "Licking a glacier can change your DNA": landscape in prose poetry and flash nonfiction / Katie Berger, Laura Kochman, and Brandi Wells
- Zero to hero! A superhero of uncommon valor / Megan Paonessa and Danilo Thomas
- World domination: planets, species, disasters / Megan Paonessa and Danilo Thomas
- Demystifying the publishing process / Rachel Adams, A.B. Gorham, and Lisa Tallin
- Contributors
- Literary sources.