The muses among us : eloquent listening and other pleasures of the writer's craft / Kim Stafford.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stafford, Kim Robert.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Rhetoric.

English language.

Creative writing.

Report writing.

Authorship.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (153 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Athens : University of Georgia Press, 2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

An encouraging book for writers at any stage of their development. Guiding us from ideas through to a finished piece are a wealth of experiments, assignments, and tricks of the trade that Stafford has perfected over thirty years of classes, workshops, and other gatherings of write.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

Preface

Writing Daily, Writing in Tune

Scribe to the Prophet

Library of the Mind

The Writer as Professional Eavesdropper

Live Free or Die

Quilting Your Solitudes: A Letter to My Class

Looking for Mr. Nu

Happy Problems

Personal Memory and Fictional Character

Reading the Cutbank Grief

Open Discovery in the Art of Creative Nonfiction

The Random Autobiography

Sentence as River and as Drum

Writing in the Open

Pepper

Why Write?

Rosie's Book of Sayings

Selfish Pleasures in a Life of Art: A Speech to the Graduating Class

Fame

Afterword: Learning from Strangers

There Was a Time

Acknowledgments.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

9786613586728

9781280491498

1280491493

9780820340364

0820340367

OCLC:

784965024