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| Preface to the Instructor | xv | |
| Invitation to the Writer | xx | |
| You ... | xx | |
| ... and writing ... | xxi | |
| ... and reading ... | xxii | |
| ... and this book ... | xxii | |
| ... and your journal ... | xxiii | |
| ... and your workshop | xxvi | |
| Part I | The Elements of Craft | |
| Chapter 1 | Image | 2 |
| Image and Imagination | 3 | |
| Concrete, Significant Details | 7 | |
| Metaphor and Simile | 11 | |
| Essays | 14 | |
| "The Giant Water Bug" | 14 | |
| From A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius | 15 | |
| Fiction | 19 | |
| "Sister Godzilla" | 19 | |
| "Car Crash While Hitchhiking" | 26 | |
| Poems | ||
| "The Hawk in the Rain" | 31 | |
| "The Haunted Ruin" | 32 | |
| "Facing It" | 33 | |
| "The Surface" | 34 | |
| "How to Use This Body" | 35 | |
| "Why Regret?" | 36 | |
| Drama | 37 | |
| Act Without Words | 37 | |
| The Drummer | 40 | |
| Chapter 2 | Voice | 42 |
| Your Voice | 44 | |
| Persona | 45 | |
| Character Voice | 47 | |
| Point of View | 49 | |
| Essays | 55 | |
| From Angela's Ashes | 55 | |
| "Invitation to a Transformation" | 63 | |
| Fiction | 64 | |
| "In the Kindergarten" | 64 | |
| "The School" | 72 | |
| Poems | 74 | |
| "Order in the Streets" | 74 | |
| "Black Hair" | 75 | |
| "Hawk Roosting" | 76 | |
| "Kong Looks Back on His Tryout with the Bears" | 77 | |
| "Father" | 78 | |
| "A Mown Lawn" | 79 | |
| "The Language of Bees" | 80 | |
| Drama | 82 | |
| from Talking With ... Handler and French Fries | 82 | |
| Chapter 3 | Character | 86 |
| As Desire | 87 | |
| As Image | 89 | |
| As Voice | 91 | |
| As Action | 94 | |
| As Thought | 96 | |
| As Presented by the Author | 97 | |
| As Conflict | 98 | |
| Essay | 99 | |
| "The Inheritance of Tools" | 99 | |
| Fiction | 106 | |
| "Ysrael" | ||
| Poems | 115 | |
| "I Knew a Woman" | 115 | |
| "Stonecarver" | 116 | |
| "My Brother's Work" | 116 | |
| "Old man Hansen comes in at ten to" | 117 | |
| "One Flesh" | 118 | |
| "Old Men Playing Basketball" | 118 | |
| "Portrait of a Writer" | 119 | |
| Drama | 121 | |
| Brother | 121 | |
| Chapter 4 | Setting | 128 |
| As the World | 130 | |
| As a Camera | 133 | |
| As Mood and Symbol | 136 | |
| As Action | 137 | |
| Essays | 139 | |
| "At the Dam" | 139 | |
| "Landscape and Narrative" | 141 | |
| Fiction | 147 | |
| "Snow" | 147 | |
| Poems | 156 | |
| "Deer Ghost" | 156 | |
| "Earthmoving Malediction" | 157 | |
| "Vacation" | 158 | |
| "Nude Interrogation" | 158 | |
| "Advice From the Extractor" | 159 | |
| Drama | 161 | |
| Dutchman | 161 | |
| Chapter 5 | Story | 178 |
| As a Journey | 179 | |
| As a Power Struggle | 181 | |
| As Connection/Disconnection | 183 | |
| Essay | 190 | |
| "Red Sky in the Morning" | 190 | |
| Fiction | 194 | |
| "Missing" | 194 | |
| "Worry" | 201 | |
| Poems | 202 | |
| "A Story About the Body" | 202 | |
| "Digging for China" | 202 | |
| "Short Story" | 203 | |
| "Woodchucks" | 204 | |
| "The Hammock" | 205 | |
| "Vita Nova" | 206 | |
| Drama | 208 | |
| The Battle of Bull Run Always Makes Me Cry | 208 | |
| Chapter 6 | Development and Revision | 216 |
| Developing a Draft | 218 | |
| Revision and Editing | 222 | |
| The Workshop | 226 | |
| Examples | 229 | |
| First and final drafts of "One Art" | 229 | |
| "The Opening of Time Lapse: a revision narrative" | 231 | |
| Developing Scene | 237 | |
| Undrafting | 238 | |
| Line Editing | 239 | |
| Part II | The Genres | |
| Chapter 7 | Essay | 242 |
| Kinds of Essay | 244 | |
| Essay Techniques | 247 | |
| Fact and Truth | 251 | |
| Readings | 254 | |
| "The Female Body" | 254 | |
| "Those Words That Echo ... Echo ... Echo Through Life" | 257 | |
| "The Knife" | 261 | |
| "Belongings" | 268 | |
| Chapter 8 | Fiction | 272 |
| Story and Plot | 273 | |
| Scene and Summary | 276 | |
| Backstory and Flashback | 278 | |
| Text and Subtext | 281 | |
| Readings | 283 | |
| "The Diamond Mine" | 283 | |
| "Your Fears Are Justified" | 289 | |
| "Mockingbird" | 290 | |
| "It's Water, It's Not Going to Kill You" | 291 | |
| "Tomorrow's Bird" | 302 | |
| Chapter 9 | Poetry | 306 |
| Free Verse and Formal Verse | 308 | |
| Imagery, Connotation, and Metaphor | 310 | |
| Density and Intensity | 312 | |
| Prosody, Rhythm, and Rhyme | 316 | |
| Readings | 322 | |
| "Stillborn" | 322 | |
| "The Grammar Lesson" | 323 | |
| "The Poet, Trying to Surprise God" | 323 | |
| "Like This Together" | 324 | |
| "Romantic, at Horseshoe Key" | 326 | |
| "Locking Yourself Out, Then Trying to Get Back In" | 327 | |
| "Prose Poem" | 328 | |
| "Black Silhouettes of Shrimpers" | 329 | |
| "Repetition" | 330 | |
| "Ghazal" | 331 | |
| "The Language of the Brag" | 332 | |
| "Dream Song 14" | 333 | |
| "My Uncle Guillermo Speaks at His Own Funeral" | 334 | |
| Chapter 10 | Drama | 336 |
| The Difference Between Drama and Fiction | 337 | |
| Sight: Sets, Action, Costumes, Props | 339 | |
| Sound: Nonverbal and Verbal | 342 | |
| Some Notes on Screenwriting | 347 | |
| Readings | 349 | |
| The Road to Ruin | 349 | |
| Duet for Bear and Dog | 357 | |
| Gas | 362 | |
| Eukiah | 367 | |
| The Philadelphia | 371 | |
| Appendix A | Collaborative Exercises | 379 |
| Appendix B | Formats | 387 |
| 1. | Prose fiction and nonfiction | 387 |
| 2. | Poetry | 387 |
| 3. | Drama | 387 |
| Appendix C | A Basic Prosody | 393 |
| Glossary | 401 | |
| Index | 407 |
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Rex Jessen
reviewed Imaginative Writing: The Elements of Craft on February 15, 2014 Imaginative Writing: The Elements of Craft
The basis of this book is that writing should be play-even for professional writers there has to be an element of fun and joy. As long as an author can keep having fun, they can write indefinitely and improve their craft. While I'm no fan of the Iowa Writer's Seminar, (and this book is steeped in that tradition), it has a lot of useful tips and exercises for writing a little every day, and improving your own writing. I could see this useful for teaching a creative writing class, or as a self-guided seminar.
For a fan of literature as opposed to a practitioner, there's also a lot to enjoy here, with a feast of short fiction, essays, poems, and plays used as examples. Sometimes it's a little hard to see the relevance to the theme of chapter, but as someone who mostly stays away from modern fiction this was a lovely sampling.
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