Playful Way to Serious Writing

Name: Playful Way to Serious Writing
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ISBN: 9780618197293

ISBN-10: 061819729X

ISBN-13: 9780618197293

Edition: 2002

Authors: Roberta Allen

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For anyone who has ever dreaded the blank page or struggled to find something to write and then agonized over how best to write it, or has simply found writing to be hard work, The Playful Way to Serious Writing breaks down common writing barriers and frees the writer within. Drawing on extensive experience in teaching creative writing and a lifetime of free artistic expression, Roberta Allen, novelist, short story writer, and author of Fast Fiction, has created a unique book of writing exercises packed with hundreds of verbal directives and visual cues. The key, Allen says, is ENERGY, "the force behind the words, the desire to bring forth something that has never before existed." Allen's…

Book details

List price: $14.95
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
Publication date: 9/9/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 8.00" wide x 8.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



Starting Out


What is the ENERGY Method?


How it works


How to know when a word or image has ENERGY


How to rebel


How to use the exercises


How to choose the exercises


Splotches


What is her secret?


Pick a letter


Why is she smiling?


Six figures


Moments


Looking Inward


How far back can you go?


Memories


More memories


Whose memory is it?


False memories


Still more memories


Two sides of the story


A safe place


Objects not directly related


Pick a fear


More fears


Still more fears


What will happen here?


Found objects


Realizations


Life-shaping events


Found objects


Woman sitting


Decisions


More decisions


Still more decisions


What does he want?


Desires


Dreams


Imaginary dreams


Looking Outward


Pick a letter


Who and where?


Loose lines


Three ways to explore characters or real people


Ten ways to get a piece or project unstuck


Pick a character


Who have I left out?


Who and where?


Getting physical


Minor mishaps


Shades of gray


Pick a problem


More problems


What is his problem?


One or two?


Solutions


Mixed feelings


Emotional states


More emotional states


A stranger


Mirror monologue


Mouth piece


Eye piece


Found objects


Combination piece


Hair piece


What's in the box?


Is she "real"?


How are they connected?


Four silhouettes


Who is she?


One of three women


Pick a name


Before ...


After ...


Who is he?


Where and who?


Looking All Around


Pick a place


More places


A real place


Another real place


Islands


What was lost here?


A primeval place


Dream space


Twenty-four figures


More inspirations


Pick two numbers


Whose hand is this?


What do they smell?


What does she smell?


A bad taste?


Eavesdropping


Sound piece


Pick an action


Pick an issue


Pick an animal


Pick a noun


More lines


Drawing lines


Cryptic writing


Looking Ahead


Now what?


How to run a Playful way group


Acknowledgments