From Where You Dream: The Process of Writing Fiction

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author "shares his insights into-and passion for-the creation and experience of fiction with total openness" (Publishers Weekly, starred review).



Robert Olen Butler, author of Perfume River, A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain, and A Small Hotel, teaches graduate fiction at Florida State University-his version of literary boot camp. In From Where You Dream, Butler reimagines the process of writing as emotional rather than intellectual and tells writers how to ach...