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Creative Writer's Handbook, 4/E
Dr. Philip K. Jason, Professor Emeritus, United States Naval Academy
Dr. Allan B. Lefcowitz, United States Naval Academy

ISBN-10: 0131893718
ISBN-13: 9780131893719

Publisher: Longman
Copyright: 2005
Format: Paper; 432 pp
Published: 07/20/2004

Suggested retail price: $80.60
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For Creative Writing as well as General English courses.

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.

  • NEW - Updated examples of effective stories, essays, poems and plays.

    • Explores the work of “classic” modern as well as active contemporary writers.

  • An extensive look at issues—Includes attitudes, habits, journal-keeping, point of view, language, invention and research, and more.

    • Presents students with the fundamental issues that are of importance to every creative writer.

  • Multiple exercises on each issue and genre explored—Includes many that are connected to the sample writing.

    • Involves students in the conventions and methods of literary craft, offering guidelines that may spark raw material worth developing into poems, stories, personal essays, or plays.

  • Updated examples of effective stories, essays, poems and plays.

    • Explores the work of “classic” modern as well as active contemporary writers.

I. A WRITER'S CONCERNS.

1. Working like a Writer.

2. Keeping a Journal.

3. Point of View.

Rhody's Path, William Goyen.

4. Language Is Your Medium.

5. Invention and Research.

Ellis Island: Then and Now, Sharon Spencer.

II. THE CONCERNS OF THE POET.

6. The Elements of Poetry.

7. Practicing Poetry.

8. Poetry Problems.

III. THE CONCERNS OF THE STORYTELLER.

9. The Elements of Fiction.

10. Narration and Its Problems.

11. Creative Nonfiction.

12. Stories and Memoirs.

The Thing with Willie, Karen Sagstetter. A Very Short Story, Ernest Hemingway . The Boarding House, James Joyce. Sunday in the Park, Bel Kaufman. The First Day, Edward Jones. Just Married, Tony Earley. Chinese Medicine, Hilary Tham. Close Encounters of the Sneaky Kind, Richard Conniff.

IV. THE CONCERNS OF THE PLAYWRIGHT.

13. The Elements of Drama.

14. Dialogue and Its Problems.

The Day They Shot John Lennon, James McLure.

15. Plays and Screen Plays.

Procedure, Joyce Carol Oates. Last Day of Camp, Jeffrey Sweet.

V. THE WRITER'S BUSINESS.

16. From Revision to Submission.

17. Tools and Resources.

Glossary of Key Terms.

For Creative Writing - General


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