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Mixed Motives and Maybes. Five Years from Now….. Dream Work. The Skeleton. From Situation to Plot. What If? How to Develop and Finish Stories. So, What Happened? Plot Potential. The End Foretold. Taboos: Weak Adverbs and Adjectives. Word Packages Are Not Gifts. Bringing Abstract Ideas to Life. How to Keep a Narrative Moving Forward. Time Travel. Stairs: Setting and Place.

Titles and Keys. Illustrations, from Margot Livesey. Far away Places. Humor: an Intact Frog. Sunday: Discovering Emotional Triggers. Kill the Dog. What You Carry. Psycho: Creating Terror. One in the Hand. Notes and Letters. The Chain Story. Opening Up Your Story. Gifts to Yourself.

Magnifying Conflict, from David Ray. In-Class Revision. Sudden Fiction, from James Thomas. Solving for X, from Ron Carlson. The Journey of the Long Sentence.

Rules of the Game. Ten to One, from Hester Kaplan. Make a List. Some Answers. How to. Learning from the Greats. Borrowing Characters. What Keeps You Reading? The Literary Scene Circa , , , or? Who Are You? People From the Past: Characters of the Future. Creative Wrong Memory. Let Us Write Letters. Pearson offers affordable and accessible purchase options to meet the needs of your students. Connect with us to learn more.

I did get some great ideas though and I wouldn't discourage any writer from trying this book out. But I would recommend skimming through the book to find exercises that will help you work through your current kinks, and not to work through the book cover to cover. May 18, Amanda Patterson rated it really liked it. Great motivator for writers. Ask the difficult questions and then write the story. Aug 19, Jason rated it it was amazing.

I can open it to any page and be handed some thoughtful concepts, useful exercises, and inspiring quotes from established authors. Oct 19, Bella Proof rated it really liked it. I wish we had the option of doing half stars because this is definitely a 4. I think it was great material for somebody trying to break out into the writing world professionally such as myself. I learned a lot of little secrets to the trade that I wasn't aware of.

It also kept my mind busy and formulated a lot of novel ideas. Aug 02, Tree Langdon rated it really liked it. Thorough exploration of fiction exercises with a variety of short stories to illustrate the lesson. Sep 10, Grant Faulkner rated it it was amazing Shelves: writing. A classic, especially for creative writing teachers.

Dec 30, Candace Green rated it really liked it. Not bad, but it takes fortitude to work through it as it gets tiresome. Reads like textbook.

Dec 18, Ryan Patrick rated it liked it Shelves: writing , non-fiction There are some good ideas and exercises in here, but a lot of it seems aimed at more 'literary' writing. Still, I adapt and it works. Shelves: Mar 17, Sean E. This is an incredible resource for learning and practising techniques related to fiction writing, and the short stories in the end are phenomenal.

I used this back in college in , and loved it then. I've used in many times since when working with fiction writing groups, and still love it. Although I liked this book, my two main quibbles are: 1 the selection and arrangement of the collection of short stories, the lengthier ones, that is; and 2 not enough exercises.

If you want an exercise on irony, it's not in here. How about one on subtext in dialogue? Although the short stories aren't bad, I prefer them to be grouped together. A good example is the anthology Points of View by James Moffett.

It is solely about POV and Moffett arranged the stories from straight internal mo Although I liked this book, my two main quibbles are: 1 the selection and arrangement of the collection of short stories, the lengthier ones, that is; and 2 not enough exercises.

It is solely about POV and Moffett arranged the stories from straight internal monologue to dramatic monologue to letter narration to diary narration to subjective narration to detached autobiography to memoir or observer narration to anonymous narration single POV to anonymous narration dual POV to anonymous narration multiple POV.

The distance from the reader to the narrator's head steadily increases from the beginning of this anthology to the end. Dec 18, Richard Jespers rated it it was amazing. Another great creative writing text. Practical yet creative in approach. For example, highlighting that which represent the five senses using five different colors. It graphically represents how much or how little your writing is concrete, appealing at least some of the time to Another great creative writing text.

It graphically represents how much or how little your writing is concrete, appealing at least some of the time to the five ways we interpret the world. I used it with regard to an entire novel, and the process helped me to revise some rather poverty-stricken areas of the book. Jun 14, Nena rated it really liked it. This is a wonderful writing exercise book! There are several exercises that I already do in my writing, and I either skip them or tweak them a bit, but it is still helpful because now I know why those tips work or are necessary in writing.

I try to do one exercise a day, but I find myself excited by the writing prompts and I end up doing two or three, or even stopping so I can work on a story the exercise has just inspired. I'm getting so much writing done these days! I will keep using this unti This is a wonderful writing exercise book! I will keep using this until all the tips are drilled into my head. Great, wonderful, book!

Tons of easy, relevant exercises, categorized in an easy-to-read manner, complete with student examples. And don't skip out on the short stories at the end of the book! I'd love to get someone participating with me. Self-promotion aside, do pick up this fantastic book that is applicable to both novel writers and those who do short stor Great, wonderful, book!

Self-promotion aside, do pick up this fantastic book that is applicable to both novel writers and those who do short stories. Sep 03, Ryan rated it really liked it Recommends it for: aspiring writers of any sort. This book has some fantastic characterization and plot exercises. My friend Colin recommended it to me after his summer class on writing, and it happened to be in my curriculum the next semester. While I haven't sat down and done all these yet, I certainly think it presents an amazing way to build full If you want to write, pick it up.

Aug 29, David rated it really liked it. I haven't tried any of the exercises in this book yet, but they look intriguing. Very practical oriented, not nuts and bolts technical, philosophical, or advice on how to live as a writer.

Just a series of exercises tons to work on different fiction writing skills. They've got some nice stories tossed in at the end, though they just kind of say "these are good stories" without providing any commentary as to why they were selected or what aspects are particularly well handled. If you are located outside Canada, the best way to order online is to choose from the following bookstores listed by region and country. Back Then. Anne Bernays. Paperback Read a Sample. Amazon Indigo.

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