From 'Huh?' to 'Hurray!': Righting Your Creative Writing
Part textbook and part handbook, From "Huh?" to "Hurray!": Righting Your Creative Writing leads creative writers of all levels and all genres through the entire writing process. This accessible guide offers helpful suggestions to prompt and encourage even the most blocked writers to explore and develop their written word. Whether readers are working independently, with a class, or in a writers' group, the easy exercises contained within are created to inspire each to achieve his or her fullest potential.
Structured around the basic elements of all good creative writing, From "Huh?" to "Hurray!" takes its readers through the process of creation and composition in brief and comprehensible sections. Each chapter offers an overview and several specific examples of its topic, followed by a set of clear exercises designed for writers of all varieties, from the novice to the pro, from the poet to the novelist. This text will certainly take a writer's work from huh? to hurray!
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From 'Huh?' to 'Hurray!': Righting Your Creative Writing
Part textbook and part handbook, From "Huh?" to "Hurray!": Righting Your Creative Writing leads creative writers of all levels and all genres through the entire writing process. This accessible guide offers helpful suggestions to prompt and encourage even the most blocked writers to explore and develop their written word. Whether readers are working independently, with a class, or in a writers' group, the easy exercises contained within are created to inspire each to achieve his or her fullest potential.
Structured around the basic elements of all good creative writing, From "Huh?" to "Hurray!" takes its readers through the process of creation and composition in brief and comprehensible sections. Each chapter offers an overview and several specific examples of its topic, followed by a set of clear exercises designed for writers of all varieties, from the novice to the pro, from the poet to the novelist. This text will certainly take a writer's work from huh? to hurray!
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From 'Huh?' to 'Hurray!': Righting Your Creative Writing

From 'Huh?' to 'Hurray!': Righting Your Creative Writing

by Stephanie Stiles
From 'Huh?' to 'Hurray!': Righting Your Creative Writing

From 'Huh?' to 'Hurray!': Righting Your Creative Writing

by Stephanie Stiles

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Part textbook and part handbook, From "Huh?" to "Hurray!": Righting Your Creative Writing leads creative writers of all levels and all genres through the entire writing process. This accessible guide offers helpful suggestions to prompt and encourage even the most blocked writers to explore and develop their written word. Whether readers are working independently, with a class, or in a writers' group, the easy exercises contained within are created to inspire each to achieve his or her fullest potential.
Structured around the basic elements of all good creative writing, From "Huh?" to "Hurray!" takes its readers through the process of creation and composition in brief and comprehensible sections. Each chapter offers an overview and several specific examples of its topic, followed by a set of clear exercises designed for writers of all varieties, from the novice to the pro, from the poet to the novelist. This text will certainly take a writer's work from huh? to hurray!

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780761853367
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 11/15/2010
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 104
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Stephanie Stiles is a professor of English at Dominican College in New York, where she chairs the department and directs the Creative Writing Program. Her prize-winning poetry, as well as her fiction and non-fiction, have appeared in various contemporary anthologies and journals; her first novel will be published next year. She received her doctorate in nineteenth-century British literature from New York University, and now lives with her husband, son, and baby daughter in northern New Jersey.

Table of Contents

Preface vii

Acknowledgements ix

Introduction xi

Chapter 1 Getting Started 1

Chapter 2 Focusing on Details 5

Chapter 3 Constructing a Setting 9

Chapter 4 Building Character 13

Chapter 5 Knowing Your Character 17

Chapter 6 Creating Conflict 21

Chapter 7 Speaking the Truth 25

Chapter 8 Motivating the Agents 29

Chapter 9 Finding Your Point of View 33

Chapter 10 Relying on the Unreliable 37

Chapter 11 Taking the Time 41

Chapter 12 Choosing the Words 45

Chapter 13 Structuring Symbols 49

Chapter 14 Making Meaning 53

Chapter 15 Mastering Irony 57

Chapter 16 Addressing Your Audience 61

Chapter 17 Reviewing the Work 65

Chapter 18 Revising Your Work 73

Chapter 19 Polishing Your Manuscript 77

Chapter 20 Being a Writer 81

Epilogue 85

Index 87

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