The way of the writer : reflections on the art and craft of storytelling
Item details
- ISBN: 9781501147210
- ISBN: 1501147218
- ISBN: 9781501147227
- ISBN: 1501147226
- ISBN: 9781501147234
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xix, 233 pages ; 23 cm - Edition: First Scribner edition.
- Publisher: New York : Scribner, 2016.
Contents / Notes
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
Formatted Contents Note: | I. Who is the writer? : In the beginning ... -- The apprentice novels -- A day in the life -- The writing space -- The artist as shape-shifter -- The question of vision -- II. The process of writing : A boot camp for creative writing -- Words -- In defense of our language -- Telling it long and telling it short -- Opening sentences: a hundred rays of light -- On craft and revision -- The challenge of voice -- How we sound -- Nature gives us no metaphors -- Scene and dialogue -- The importance of plot -- Storytelling and the alpha narrative -- On the novel and short story -- The essay -- The risks we take -- III. What helps the writer? : On teachers and mentors -- The wounds that create our work -- The first readers -- Writers and editors -- On reading -- The virtues of journalism -- Practical literary advice -- IV. The writer as teacher : The literary duet: creative writing and critical theory -- The creative-writing teacher as soul catcher -- Writing and teaching, or From Mr. Hyde to Dr. Jekyll -- V. The writing life and the duties of the writer : The art of book reviewing -- In translation -- On screenwriting -- Editing and small presses -- VI. Philosophy and the writer : Writing well is thinking well -- The writer and philosophy -- Fiction and the liberation of perception -- New fiction novelists -- Science fiction and the philosophical novel -- Sartre and the nothingness of being -- The truth-telling power of fiction -- Afterword: Notes from a former student / Marc C. Conner. |
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