Turning Life into Fiction

Name: Turning Life into Fiction
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ISBN: 9781555974442

ISBN-10: 1555974449

ISBN-13: 9781555974442

Edition: 2nd 2006 (Revised)

Authors: Robin Hemley

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A highly entertaining and indispensable manual on how to write good fiction nbsp; If you want to write at all, whether from real life or not, you must be willing and able to use your imagination. That means you must be willing to take risks and sometimes look the fool. You must be willing to transform experience, not simply record it. If you were a good liar, daydreamer, or troublemaker as a child, you’ll probably make a good fiction writer. Daydreams, lies, and trouble. That’s the stuff of fiction. In Turning Life into Fiction, Robin Hemley offers a highly entertaining and in-depth manual—with writing exercises on how to convert real life into good storytelling. He covers a wide range…

Book details

List price: $16.00
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Publication date: 5/2/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 6.45" wide x 8.56" long x 0.94" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English

Robin Hemley is the winner of a Guggenheim Fellowship for his work on DO-OVER!. He has published seven books, and his stories and essays have appeared in the New York Times, New York Magazine, Chicago Tribune, and many literary magazines and anthologies. Robin received his MFA from the Iowa Writers Workshop; he currently directs the Nonfiction Writing Program at the University of Iowa and lives in Iowa City, IA.



Introduction : experience versus the imagination : a transformation



Journals : recording and generating ideas



Finding your form : choosing between memoir and novel, transforming anecdotes into stories



Focusing real life : imposing order on experience through characterization, plot, point of view, and other elements of craft



Real people : transforming real people into fictional characters, creating composite characters



Real stories : writing stories of family, childhood, jobs, and other true experiences; finding story ideas in the media, in dreams, in chance discoveries



Real places : creating fictional settings from actual places



Writing (and rewriting) with authority : weaving research into fiction, gaining distance on material, revising fiction



Legal and ethical concerns : using real names and people - what writers can and cannot do


Installations



Risk



Nada



Death in the woods



If you step on a crack



Apple



The lizard



Interior design



The provider



The big ear