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: 9780761853374
Publisher: University Press of America
Publication date: 11/15/2010
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 104
File size: 958 KB

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

Chapter 1 Preface
Chapter 2 Acknowledgements
Chapter 3 Introduction
Chapter 4 Chapter 1: Getting Started
Chapter 5 Chapter 2: Focusing on Details
Chapter 6 Chapter 3: Constructing a Setting
Chapter 7 Chapter 4: Building Character
Chapter 8 Chapter 5: Knowing Your Character
Chapter 9 Chapter 6 Creating Conflict
Chapter 10 Chapter 7: Speaking the Truth
Chapter 11 Chapter 8: Motivating the Agents
Chapter 12 Chapter 9: Finding your Point of View
Chapter 13 Chapter 10: Relying on the Unreliable
Chapter 14 Chapter 11: Taking the Time
Chapter 15 Chapter 12: Choosing the Words
Chapter 16 Chapter 13: Structuring Symbols
Chapter 17 Chapter 14: Making Meaning
Chapter 18 Chapter 15: Mastering Irony
Chapter 19 Chapter 16: Addressing Your Audience
Chapter 20 Chapter 17: Reviewing the Work
Chapter 21 Chapter 18: Revising Your Work
Chapter 22 Chapter 19: Polishing Your Manuscript
Chapter 23 Chapter 20: Being a Writer
Chapter 24 Epilogue
Chapter 25 Index
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