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One year to a writing life : twelve lessons to deepen every writer's art and craft
Title:
One year to a writing life : twelve lessons to deepen every writer's art and craft
Summary:
Whether you are a writer of fiction or essays, or want to explore poetry or memoir, Tiberghien's twelve fundamental lessons will help you discover and develop your own distinct voice. Tiberghien's inventive exercises focus on the processes unique to each genre, while also offering skills applicable to any kind of writing, from authentic dialogue to masterful short-shorts. With vivid examples from literary masters such as Rainer Maria Rilke, Eduardo Galeano, May Sarton, Terry Tempest Williams, and Orhan Pamuk, One Year to a Writing Life is an essential guidebook of exercises, practical advice, and wisdom for anyone looking to embrace, explore, and implement creativity in everyday life.
Contents:
Journal writing -- Personal essays -- Opinion and travel essays -- Short stories and the short-short -- Dreams and writing -- Dialogue -- Tales : folk, fairy, and contemporary -- Poetic prose and the prose poem -- The alchemy of imagination -- Mosaics and memoir -- Rewriting -- Writing the way home.
Physical Description:
xxii, 261 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
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Publisher:
Da Capo Life Long,
Publication Date:
2007
ISBN:
9781600940583
Publication Information:
New York : Da Capo Life Long, ©2007.
Call Number:
808 TIBERGH
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