Bibliograph

From where you dream : the process of writing fiction / Robert Olen Butler ; edited, with an introduction by Janet Burroway,

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From where you dream : the process of writing fiction / Robert Olen Butler ; edited, with an introduction by Janet Burroway,

Language

eng

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no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

From where you dream : the process of writing fiction / Robert Olen Butler ; edited, with an introduction by Janet Burroway,

Oclc number

57531366

Summary

"Janet Burroway, author of Writing Fiction, the classic text on creative writing ... introduces her edited transcripts of Butler's thought-provoking lectures. From Where You Dream reimagines the process of writing as emotional rather than intellectual and tells writers how to achieve the dreamspace necessary for composing honest, inspired fiction. Proposing fiction as the exploration of the human condition with yearning as its compass, Butler reinterprets the traditional tools of the craft using the dynamics of desire."--Publisher's website

Table Of Contents

The Lectures : Boot Camp -- The Zone -- Yearning -- Cinema of the Mind -- A Writer PreparesThe Workshop : Reading, Lit Crit, and the Workshop -- The Bad Story -- The Anecdote Exercise -- The Written ExerciseThe Stories, Analyzed : "Flamenco" / Erich Sysak -- "My Impossibles" / Brandy T. Wilson -- "My Summer in Vulcan" / Rita Mae Reese -- Appendix: "Open Arms" / Robert Olen Butler

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