From where you dream : the process of writing fiction / Robert Olen Butler ; edited, with an introdu...
From where you dream : the process of writing fiction / Robert Olen Butler ; edited, with an introdu...
From where you dream : the process of writing fiction / Robert Olen Butler ; edited, with an introduction by Janet Burroway.
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New York : Grove Press, c2005.
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N808.3/373
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English
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269 p. ; 22 cm.
Contents
1. Boot camp -- 2. The zone -- 3. Yearning -- 4. Cinema of the mind -- 5. A writer prepares -- 6. Reading, lit crit, and the workshop -- 7. The bad story -- 8. The anecdote exercise -- 9. The written exercise -- 10. "Flamenco" by Erich Sysak -- 11. "My impossibles" by Brandy T. Wilson -- 12. "My sum...
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New York : Grove Press, c2005.
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New York (State)
Date Published
c2005.
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"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 d...
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From where you dream : the process of writing fiction / Robert Olen Butler ; edited, with an introduction by Janet Burroway.
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c2005.
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N808.3/373
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74VKdVE7R46X
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0802117953
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808.3
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