From 'Huh?' To 'Hurray!'
Righting Your Creative Writing- Authors:
- Publisher:
- 2010
Summary
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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Bibliographic data
- Copyright year
- 2010
- ISBN-Print
- 978-0-7618-5336-7
- ISBN-Online
- 978-0-7618-5337-4
- Publisher
- Hamilton Books, Lanham
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 90
- Product type
- Book Titles
Table of contents
- Table of Contents No access
- Preface No access
- Acknowledgements No access
- Introduction No access
- Chapter 1: Getting Started No access Pages 1 - 4
- Chapter 2: Focusing on Details No access Pages 5 - 8
- Chapter 3: Constructing a Setting No access Pages 9 - 12
- Chapter 4: Building Character No access Pages 13 - 16
- Chapter 5: Knowing Your Character No access Pages 17 - 20
- Chapter 6: Creating Conflict No access Pages 21 - 24
- Chapter 7: Speaking the Truth No access Pages 25 - 28
- Chapter 8: Motivating the Agents No access Pages 29 - 32
- Chapter 9: Finding Your Point of View No access Pages 33 - 36
- Chapter 10: Relying on the Unreliable No access Pages 37 - 40
- Chapter 11 : Taking the Time No access Pages 41 - 44
- Chapter 12: Choosing the Words No access Pages 45 - 48
- Chapter 13: Structuring Symbols No access Pages 49 - 52
- Chapter 14: Making Meaning No access Pages 53 - 56
- Chapter 15: Mastering Irony No access Pages 57 - 60
- Chapter 16: Addressing Your Audience No access Pages 61 - 64
- Chapter 17: Reviewing the Work No access Pages 65 - 72
- Chapter 18: Revising Your Work No access Pages 73 - 76
- Chapter 19: Polishing Your Manuscript No access Pages 77 - 80
- Chapter 20: Being a Writer No access Pages 81 - 84
- Epilogue No access Pages 85 - 86
- Index No access Pages 87 - 88
- About The Author No access Pages 89 - 90





