Crossroads Creative Writing in Four Genres

Name: Crossroads Creative Writing in Four Genres
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ISBN: 9780321127617

ISBN-10: 0321127617

ISBN-13: 9780321127617

Edition: 2005

Authors: Diane Thiel

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InCrossroads , a wealth of exercises and rich diversity of models address the elements of writing fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, and drama while developing an individual's writing skills. Clear, concise discussions of particular techniques of creative writing are followed by practice of these individual techniques. Potent, vital models are offered in an extensive anthology of classic and contemporary readings.

Book details

List price: $139.99
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Pearson Education
Publication date: 10/6/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 416
Size: 6.40" wide x 9.20" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 1.474
Language: English



Preface to the Instructor


Introduction



Across The Genres: Exercises for Developing Craft and Technique


Beginning/Points of Inspiration


Keeping a Journal


Personal Stories: History as Your Own Heartbeat


Memory and Imagination


Telling Lies to tell the Truth


Voice, Tone and Style


Finding Your True Subjects


A Question of Style


Conditional Voice


Shifting Tone


Breaking the Rules


Perspective and Point of View


Choosing a Point of View


Embodying a Voice


Innocent Perspective


Using Biography


Detail, Image, and Symbol


Detailing a Story


Turning Abstractions into Images and Action


Using All of Your Senses


Writing from Art


Symbols, not Cymbals


Figurative Language


Diction


Origins of Words


Parts of Speech


Foreign Flavor


Surrealist game


Simplify


Tell-Tale Dialect


Setting


Setting with Personality


Setting from Family History


Setting Your Hometown


Plot and Tension


Foundations of Plot


Reversing the Plot


Trading Characters, Settings, and Conflicts


Reverberating Closure


Rhythm


Finding Your Rhythm: Poetry in Prose


Parallel Structures


Listening to Nature


Character and Speaker


Populating a Piece


Assuming a Voice


Inside a Character's Mind


Dialogue


Dialogue Makes Character


The Unsaid


Dropping from the Eaves


Conversations Between Texts


Making the Old Story New


Song and Story


Kubla Khan Continued