Creative Writer's Handbook

Name: Creative Writer's Handbook
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ISBN: 9780137090990

ISBN-10: 0137090994

ISBN-13: 9780137090990

Edition: 2nd 1994

Authors: Philip K. Jason, Allan B. Lefcowitz

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This handbook is the perfect reference for beginning creative writers. It offers abundant illustrations, exercises, and useful techniques in all genres. While emphasizing problem-solving and the mastery of literary conventions, this handbook also takes the apprentice writer on a journey from inspiration to revision. Explores the work of "classic" modern as well as active contemporary writers through examples of effective stories, essays, poems and plays. An extensive look at fundamental creative writing issues includes attitudes, habits, journal-keeping, point of view, language, invention and research, and more. Appropriate for apprentice creative writers.

Book details

List price: $34.20
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: Prentice Hall Books
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 5.91" wide x 9.06" long
Weight: 1.056
Language: English




A Writer's Concerns



Working like a Writer



Keeping a Journal



Point of View


Rhody's Path




Language Is Your Medium



Invention and Research


Ellis Island: Then and Now




The Concerns of the Poet



The Elements of Poetry



Practicing Poetry



Poetry Problems



The Concerns of the Storyteller



The Elements of Fiction



Narration and Its Problems



Creative Nonfiction



Stories and Memoirs


The Thing with Willie



A Very Short Story



The Boarding House,James Joyce


Sunday in the Park



The First Day



Just Married



Chinese Medicine



Close Encounters of the Sneaky Kind




The Concerns of the Playwright



The Elements of Drama



Dialogue and Its Problems


The Day They Shot John Lennon




Plays and Screen Plays


Procedure



Last Day of Camp




The Writer's Business



From Revision to Submission



Tools and Resources


Glossary of Key Terms