Creative Writer's Handbook

Autor Philip K. Jason, Allan B. Lefcowitz

en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 ian 2009

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.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780136050520
ISBN-10: 0136050522
Pagini: 411
Dimensiuni: 150 x 226 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.54 kg
Ediția:5Nouă
Editura: Prentice Hall
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Descriere

Cuprins

Contents X
Anthology of Poems

Preface to Fifth Edition

Part I  A Writer’s Concerns
            Typical page from a journal

1      Working like a Writer
Pleasure and Passion     0   ~    Attitudes 0 ~ The Writer Participates in Writing 0 ~ A Digression for the Classroom User   ~ On Being Unprofessional ~ Working Habits   ~ A Word About Intentions

2      Journal/Research/Invention
Why Keep a Journal?
Your Journal ~ What to Write in the Journal   ~ Getting Started   ~   Keeping Up   ~ What Will You Do with It All?
The Relationship between Invention and Research
   Searching and Imagining ~ A Word about Resources

3      Point of View
What Is It? ~ Who Will Do the Telling? ~ The Decision and Its Consequences  ~ The Range of Perspectives ~ Third Person ~ First Person,
“Sex Education” by Dorothy Canfield Fisher

4      Language Is Your Medium
There Is No Such Thing as a Synonym
Choosing Well
Accuracy, ~  Precision, ~  Concreteness, ~ Appropriateness, ~ Idiomatic Usage,
Some Diction Problems
Overwriting, ~  Overmodification, ~   Saying It Twice,~ Excessive Variation ~,   Latinate Diction, ~ Archaic Diction ~,   Sonic Boom ~, Passives and Operators,
Figures of Speech
Style
Evoking Styles ~ Incompatible Styles ~ A Style Checklist

Part II The Concerns of the Poet
          Typical submission for a poem

5      The Elements of Poetry
The Nature of Poetry   ~ The Line   ~ The Line and Meter   ~ Lines and Rhymes
The Line and Free Verse   ~ Lines in Combination   ~ Imagery    ~ Sound Patterns   ~
Off-Rhyme

6      Practicing Poetry
Imitation ~ Fixed forms   ~ Memory Poem ~ Formula Poems ~   Ritual Poems   ~ List Poems   ~ Dramatic Poems/Character Poems   ~ Event Poems ~ Personification Poems ~ Epistolary Poems   ~ Time Warp Poems ~ Advice Poems ~ Picture Poems   ~ Music Poems   ~ Poems on Poems ~ Found Poems  154

7      Poetry Problems
Out of Tune ~ Archaic Diction   ~ The Anonymous Voice   ~ Appalling Abstraction   ~ Unintentional Humor   ~ Jarring Diction   ~ For the Sake of Rhyme   ~ The Clash of Poetic Elements   ~ Writing Past the Poem   ~ Treasure Burying   ~ Saying Too Much   ~ The False Start   ~ Punch-Line Endings   ~ Ineffective Line Break   ~ Out of Order   ~ Derivative Drivel

Part III  The Concerns of the Storyteller
            Typical submission page for prose
8      The Elements of Fiction
The Nature of Fiction
Plot and What It Does
Setting
Point of Attack
Character and Characterization
Action, ~  Appearance, ~ Thought ~  Dialogue, ~  Indirect Discourse,
~ Other Means, ~ Functionaries and Stock Characters ~   Naming Character    ~ The
Relationship of Character, Plot, and Setting,
A Note on the Novel

9    Narration and Its Techniques
Exposition
Flashbacks
Scene and Summary
Verisimilitude
Problems
Needless Complication, ~ Misuse of Dialogue, ~ Sudden Comfort, ~  Sudden Omniscience, ~ Ping-Pong, ~  Wrong Technique, ~ Pogo Stick, ~  Descriptive Clutter, ~ Other Problems,

10    Creative Nonfiction
The Nature of Creative Nonfiction
How the Writer Convinces the Reader
Exposure of Self, ~  Testable Elements Hold Up to the Test, ~  Anecdotes Must Feel Universal,
Virtues in Nonfiction
Problems in Creative Nonfiction
Finding Materials
    Reading, ~ Exploring Yourself, ~   Exploring Others,
“The Fact Behind the Facts” by Phillip Gerard,

11    Stories and Nonfiction
“You Won’t Remember This “ by Kate Blackwell
“A Very Short Story” by Ernest Hemingway
“The Boarding House” by James Joyce
“Sunday in the Park” by Bel Kaufman
“The First Day,” Edward Jones
“Just Married,” Tony Earley
“Chinese Medicine” by Hilary Tham
“Grandmother’s Nose” by Robert Coover

Part IV  The Concerns of the Playwright
          Typical submission page for a play

12    The Elements of Drama
The Nature of Drama
Storytelling with People and Things
Characters   ~ Presenting Character   ~ Characters in Place and Time   ~ Setting

13    Dialogue and Its Problems                                                       311
Dialogue: The Essence of Drama
Principles and Common Errors
Your Exposition Is Showing, ~ Contractions and Formality, ~  Interruptions and Other Ways of Creating Verisimilitude, ~ Fake Dialogue or the Dialogue Dummy,   ~  Designators, or Stealing the Actors’ and Director’s Jobs, ~  Long Speeches, ~
Grunting and Pausing, ~  Accents, Dialect,and Verbal Tics, ~  Swearing, ~  Locker
Room Raillery,
The Day They Shot John Lennon by James McLure

14    Plays and Screen Plays
Introduction
Procedure by Joyce Carol Oates
     Discussion
Off Hand by Michel Wallerstein
   Discussion
A Word on Plays for Film and Television
Summary

Part V  The Writer’s Business

15    From Drafting to Revision to Submission
Feedback
Revision
When to Revise,   ~  How to Revise–Checklists for poetry, prose, and plays, ~
Mechanics
Checking for Correctness,   ~ Facts   ~ Some Possible Problems   ~
Some Words About Proofreading
Finding a Home for Your Work
   Manuscript Form   ~ Publication Markets ~ Play and Film Markets ~
Before You Write that Check ~ Cover Letters ~ A Manuscript Checklist   ~
What About Copyright?

Glossary of Key Terms

Acknowledgments

Index

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Caracteristici

NEW - Updated examples of effective stories, essays, poems and plays.
- Explores the work of “classic” modern as well as active contemporary writers.

An extensive look at issues—Includes attitudes, habits, journal-keeping, point of view, language, invention and research, and more.
- Presents students with the fundamental issues that are of importance to every creative writer.

Multiple exercises on each issue and genre explored—Includes many that are connected to the sample writing.
- Involves students in the conventions and methods of literary craft, offering guidelines that may spark raw material worth developing into poems, stories, personal essays, or plays.

Caracteristici noi

New to the 5th Edition:
- Fresh writing exercises
- Research tips reflecting technological and media advances (Chapter 2 and 15)
- Quotations on writing from renowned writers relating to topics
- New poetry, fiction, non-fiction and plays. See below for a detailed list.
- Chapter and part opening images relevant to chapter topics
- Revised journal keeping chapter incorporating Internet research
- Information on receiving feedback (Chapter 15)
- Using the internet to sell your writing
- Updated illustrations of techniques (tricks of the trade)
- Increased demonstration of skills useful for writing all genres

New Selections

JOURNAL AND RESEARCH EXAMPLES
Allison Klein “A Gate-Crasher's Change of Heart”
Lee Lawrence Journal Excerpts

SHORT STORIES
Kate Blackwell, “You Won’t Remember This”
Robert Coover “Grandmother’s Nose”
Dorothy Canfield Fisher “Sex Education”

POETRY
Krista Benjamin “Letter from my Ancestors”
Christian Bok, “Vowels”
Geoffrey Brock “Flesh of John Brown’s Flesh: Dec. 2, 1859”
Sterling Brown, selection from “Old Lem”
Billy Collins “The Brooklyn Museum of Art”
Albert Goldbarth “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”
Jessica Goodheart “Advice for a Stegosaurus”
Bob Hicok, “So I know”
Vicki Hudspith “Ants”
Joanie Mackowski “When I was a Dinosaur”
Richard Newman “Briefcase of Sorrow”
Linda Pastan “Death Is Intended”
John Godfrey Saxe “The Blind Men and the Elephant”
William Stafford, “What’s in My Journal”
Kevin Young “Black Cat Blues”

NOVEL SELECTION
Alice McDermott, selection from Charming Billy.

CREATIVE NON-FICTION
Philip Gerard, “The Fact Behind the Facts”
E. Ethelbert Miller, sections from Fathering Words: The Making of an African American Writer
Naomi Shihab Nye “Mint Snowball”
Marjorie Schwarzer, Riches Rival Radical

PLAY
Michel Wallerstein “Off Hand”

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