August heat: Short stories

Dokey, Richard

Story Press

Nobody is ever missing: Stories (Illinois writers)

BRINDEL, June Rachuy

Fast Fiction: Creating Fiction in Five Minutes

Fast Fiction: Creating Fiction in Five Minutes

Roberta Allen

Your entrance into one of America's foremost creative writing programs!
Featuring instruction from past and present faculty members of the acclaimed M.F.A. in Writing Program at Vermont College of Fine Arts, including Mark Doty, Douglas Glover, Robin Hemley, Richard Jackson, Sydney Lea, Bret Lott, Sue William Silverman, David Wojahn, and Xu Xi, Words Overflown By Stars gives you unprecedented access to a top literary education.
This comprehensive resource covers a wide variety of topics, including the creative process, titles, beginnings, voice and style, point of view, novel and short story structure, the role of dreams and fantasy in fiction, the often-blurry borderline between fiction and creative nonfiction, the subgenres of creative nonfiction, music and time in poetry, image patterning, "saying the unsayable," multiculturalism, the art of revision, and much more.
Both provocative and practical, the essays in Words Overflown by Stars distill many of the lessons that have made the graduates of Vermont College of Fine Arts so successful.

Words Overflown By Stars: Creative Writing Instruction And Insight From The Vermont College Mfa Program

Reference

Jauss, David

Words, Language & Grammar

Is your teenager struggling? Are you about to lose it? Take Dad's Great Advice!This is the companion guide for parents to the bestselling book, Dad's Great Advice for Teens. It's a humorous, inspirational, essential guide to help parents of teens stay sane, relaxed, and happy while helping their teen make good decisions, become successful, and be happy.Dad's Great Advice for Parents of Teens provides 25 short pieces of unorthodox Great Advice filled with humor, wisdom, and inspirational quotes to help you: Teach your teen how to make good decisions; Help your teen improve their self-esteem; Deal with your teen's dating life; Teach your teen valuable life skills; Stay sane, relaxed, and happy with a teen in your house; Deal with bullying; Help your teen deal with traumatic events; Manage your teen's social media usage; Deal with drugs and alcohol; Get your teen to open up and connect with you; Choose which battles to fight; Find the right balance in your parenting; Prepare your teen to live independently; Develop a close relationship with your teen; Appreciate your teen more. The most respected experts recommend this book as a must-read manual with all the stuff that every parent of a teen needs to know about self-esteem, dating, social media, life skills, bullying, making good decisions, finding happiness.Dad's Great Advice is the bestselling book series that parents of teens are raving about.Dad's Great Advice for Parents of Teens is the perfect self-help survival and success guide for parents of teens looking to stay sane and happy while helping their teen build positive habits and get an edge up.This version of the book includes bonus material from: Dad's Great Advice for Teens; Dad's Great Advice for College Students; Dad's Great Advice for All Parents; Dad's Great Advice About Life Skills for Teens; Dad's Great Advice for EveryoneTake action now to become more sane, relaxed, and happy and help your teen make good decisions, become successful, and be happy!

Dad's Great Advice for Parents of Teens: Stuff Every Parent of a Teen Needs to Know About Self-Esteem, Dating, Social Media, Life Skills, Bullying, Making Good Decisions, and Finding Happiness

Parenting & Relationships

Fienberg, Marc

Family Relationships

With lively style, good humor and insight, Robin Hemley helps you turn all that you experience into fresh and powerful fiction. By learning to "reimagine," you'll focus on translating real-world people and events into characters and scenes that happen on paper for the first time. You'll think "what if" instead of "what is" in order to take control of your material and cut loose the inhibitions of real life. In these pages, you'll learn how to hone your observation skills and fill your journal with rich and vivid details. (Because, as Hemley writes, "Life is in the details, and so is good fiction.") You'll see how to decide which ideas to bring to fiction and which ones to let go. And you'll learn how to: find the right form - novel, short story, vignette, memoir - for the story you want to tell; use "triggers" to start your reader's imagination rolling; keep your fiction emotionally honest by making the right choices between "the way it happened" and what the story dictates (ask "Is it believable?", not "Did it happen?"); create composites of real people and places that fit the unique needs of your story and empower your imagination; focus your fiction. Make sure everything, every character counts - and eliminate "people who sit at the end of the bar without a role to play"; fictionalize - ethically and legally - other people's stories. Learn your rights as a writer versus their rights to privacy. (Can you use actual names? When do you need to get permission?) To illustrate how writers feed their fiction with reality, Hemley uses examples from his own work and from fiction masters of yesterday and today. At the end of each chapter, challenging exercises help you apply the basic theories and push them even further. An adventurous read, Turning Life Into Fiction will help you create fiction that's just as strange and wonderful and "real" as the life that inspires it.

Turning Life into Fiction

Hemley, Robin

Literature & Fiction

Idea Catcher: An Inspiring Journal for Writers

This spirited journal is designed to help wr iters open their eyes to the creative possibilities in their everyday world. Included are insightful quotes and anecdote s from well-known writers, including Tennessee Williams and William Faulkner. '

Offers writers advice on handling human sexuality in their fiction, tells how to write about specific situations, and shares examples of good writing

The Joy of Writing Sex: A Guide for Fiction Writers

Benedict, Elizabeth

Whether you're writing an argument, a love scene, a powwow among sixth graders or scientists in a lab, this book demonstrates how to write dialogue that sounds authentic and original. You'll learn ways to find ideas for literary discussions by tuning in to what you hear every day. You'll learn to use gestures instead of speech, to insert silences that are as effective as outbursts, to add shifts in tone, and other strategies for making conversations more compelling. Nuts and bolts are covered, too - formatting, punctuation, dialogue tags - everything you need to get your characters talking.

Writing Dialogue

Chiarella, Tom

Writing Fiction Step by Step gives you more than 200 exercises that will sharpen your writing skills while helping you develop complete short stories, even novels.
In this sequel to his very popular Fiction Writer's Workshop, Whiting Award-winning author Josip Novakovich shows you that writing fiction is about making connections–between character and plot, setting and conflict, memory and imagination. You'll make these connections by linking the exercises. A character invented in chapter two can appear in a scene outlined in chapter eight and can speak in a voice developed in chapter ten.
Embark on a unique writing journey and learn step by step how to craft fiction that captivates readers.

Writing Fiction Step by Step

Novakovich, Josip

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August heat: Short stories

Nobody is ever missing: Stories (Illinois writers)

Fast Fiction: Creating Fiction in Five Minutes

Words Overflown By Stars: Creative Writing Instruction And Insight From The Vermont College Mfa Program

Dad's Great Advice for Parents of Teens: Stuff Every Parent of a Teen Needs to Know About Self-Esteem, Dating, Social Media, Life Skills, Bullying, Making Good Decisions, and Finding Happiness

Turning Life into Fiction

Idea Catcher: An Inspiring Journal for Writers

The Joy of Writing Sex: A Guide for Fiction Writers

Writing Dialogue

Writing Fiction Step by Step