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About writing : seven essays, four letters, and five interviews / Samuel R. Delany.
Van Pelt Library PS3554.E437 Z474 2005
By Request
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Delany, Samuel R.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Delany, Samuel R--Authorship.
- Delany, Samuel R.
- Delany, Samuel R--Interviews.
- Delany, Samuel R--Correspondence.
- Authors, American--20th century--Interviews.
- Authors, American.
- Authorship.
- Authors, American--20th century--Correspondence.
- Science fiction--Authorship.
- Science fiction.
- Genre:
- Interviews.
- Correspondence.
- Personal correspondence.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 419 pages ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, [2005]
- Summary:
- Addresses such issues as character development and literary devices such as flashbacks, as well as contemporary state of creative writing.
- Contents:
- An Introduction: Emblems of Talent 1
- Part I Seven Essays
- Teaching/Writing 63
- Thickening the Plot 69
- Characters 77
- On Pure Storytelling 85
- Of Doubts and Dreams 95
- After Almost No Time at All the String on Which He Had Been Pulling and Pulling Came Apart into Two Separate Pieces So Quickly He Hardly Realized It Had Snapped, or: Reflections on "The Beach Fire" 107
- Some Notes for the Intermediate and Advanced Creative Writing Student 117
- Part II Four Letters
- Letter to P- 151
- Letter to Q- 161
- Letter to R- 181
- Letter to S- 201
- Part III Five Interviews
- A Para-doxa Interview: Experimental Writing/Texts & Questions 209
- An American Literary History Interview: The Situation of American Writing Today 271
- A Poetry Project Newsletter Interview: A Silent Interview 299
- A Black Clock Interview 311
- A Para-doxa Interview: Inside and Outside the Canon 337
- Appendix Nits, Nips, Tucks, and Tips
- Name, Date, Place 375
- Read Widely 377
- Grammar and Parts of Speech 377
- Sentences 382
- Punctuating Dialogue 385
- A Final Note on Dialogue 397
- Apostrophes 399
- Dramatic Structure 400
- Excitement, Drama, Suspense, Surprise, Violence 408
- Point of View 411
- First Person 412
- Trust Your Image 415
- Write What You Know 417.
- ISBN:
- 0819567159
- 0819567167
- OCLC:
- 60796282
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