In Finding Your Writer's Voice, novelist Thaisa Frank and poet Dorothy Wall show that voice is not something mysterious: It's simply the way you, the writer, project yourself artistically. Finding Your Writer's Voice helps writers learn to develop a distinctive and vibrant voice.
Novelist Frank and poet Wall show that voice is not something mysterious: it's simply the way you, the writer, project yourself artistically. This book helps writers learn to develop a distinctive and vibrant narrative persona, as well as using voice to create characters.--From …
Bursting with invaluable advice, this inspiring and practical guide, fully revised and updated in this new edition, is a must for anyone who yearns to write about travel - whether they aspire to make their living from it or simply enjoy jotting in a journal for posterity. You do…
Hip Check: An Introduction in Four Parts -- If Men Don't Have Hips, How Can They Hip-Check? -- Showing and Telling: Debi Thomas's Unitard and the Racing of the Obscene -- Deep into Drivel: A Burger King Pride Stunt, Mundane Racism, and the Rainbow -- TV Evidence for the Transgen…
"Hip Checks considers the workings and inter-workings of queer gender, race, and writing, inviting a critical and writing practice involving interruption, shifting direction, and openness to being conceptually knocked sideways"--
"Hip Checks considers the workings and inter-workings of queer gender, race, and writing, inviting a critical and writing practice involving interruption, shifting direction, and openness to being conceptually knocked sideways"--
"Hip Checks considers the workings and inter-workings of queer gender, race, and writing, inviting a critical and writing practice involving interruption, shifting direction, and openness to being conceptually knocked sideways"--
In The Small Book of Hip Checks Erica Rand uses multiple meanings of hip check--including an athlete using their hip to throw an opponent off-balance and the inspection of racialized gender--to consider the workings of queer gender, race, and writing. Explicitly attending to pro…
"Hip Checks considers the workings and inter-workings of queer gender, race, and writing, inviting a critical and writing practice involving interruption, shifting direction, and openness to being conceptually knocked sideways"--
"In The Small Book of Hip Checks Erica Rand uses multiple meanings of hip check--including an athlete using their hip to throw an opponent off-balance and the inspection of racialized gender--to consider the workings of queer gender, race, and writing. Explicitly attending to pr…
"The first step to becoming a successful writer is to become a successful reader. Helping you develop your critical skills How to Read Like a Writer is an accessible and effective step-by-step guide to how careful reading can help you improve your craft as a creative writer, wha…
"A prolific and award-winning writer, Lee Martin has put pen to paper to offer his wisdom, honed during thirty years of teaching the oh-so-elusive art of writing. Telling Stories is intended for anyone interested in thinking more about the elements of storytelling in short stori…
"A prolific and award-winning writer, Lee Martin has put pen to paper to offer his wisdom, honed during thirty years of teaching the oh-so-elusive art of writing. Telling Stories is intended for anyone interested in thinking more about the elements of storytelling in short stori…
"A prolific and award-winning writer, Lee Martin has put pen to paper to offer his wisdom, honed during thirty years of teaching the oh-so-elusive art of writing. Telling Stories is intended for anyone interested in thinking more about the elements of storytelling in short stori…
When teachers experiment, students benefit. When students gain confidence to pursue their own literary experiments, creative writing can become a life-changing experience. With chapters written by experienced teachers and classroom innovators, Creative Writing Innovations builds…
Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Introduction: Creative Writing Innovations -- Part One Rethinking the Workshop -- 1 Notes Toward an Inventive, Process-Oriented Pedagogy for Introductory Multigenre Creative Writing Courses -- Critiques of c…