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Beyond the writers' workshop : new ways to write creative nonfiction / Carol Bly.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Anchor Books, [(c)2001.]Edition: first Anchor Books edition.itionDescription: xxiv, 376 pages : illustrations ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780385499194
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • PE1404.B661.B496 2001
Online resources:
Contents:
Taking on three demanding situations first -- A fundamental mistake in how we learn to write: skipping the long middle stage of writing -- Using empathic questioning to deepen your first draft -- How stage-development philosophy serves writers -- We have pushed off from the animal kingdom for good: good news for writers from neuroscientists -- Literary fixes -- Seven general issues in teaching creative writing -- Teaching elementary school children to write -- Helping people in middle and high school learn to write -- Helping college students and M.F.A. candidates to write -- Teaching at writers' conferences, community retreats, and summer short courses -- Some issues of aesthetics and ethics of writing literature.
Summary: "Inspired by a philosophy of individualism and moral vigilance, Bly combines ideas and techniques from social work, psychotherapy, and neuroscience with the traditional teaching of fresh metaphor, salient dialogue, lively pace, and analysis of other literary work."--Cover.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

Taking on three demanding situations first -- A fundamental mistake in how we learn to write: skipping the long middle stage of writing -- Using empathic questioning to deepen your first draft -- How stage-development philosophy serves writers -- We have pushed off from the animal kingdom for good: good news for writers from neuroscientists -- Literary fixes -- Seven general issues in teaching creative writing -- Teaching elementary school children to write -- Helping people in middle and high school learn to write -- Helping college students and M.F.A. candidates to write -- Teaching at writers' conferences, community retreats, and summer short courses -- Some issues of aesthetics and ethics of writing literature.

"Inspired by a philosophy of individualism and moral vigilance, Bly combines ideas and techniques from social work, psychotherapy, and neuroscience with the traditional teaching of fresh metaphor, salient dialogue, lively pace, and analysis of other literary work."--Cover.

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