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The kite and the string : how to write with spontaneity and control - and live to tell the tale / Alice Mattison.
LIBRA - Athenaeum of Philadelphia Circulating PN3355 .M336 2016
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mattison, Alice, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fiction--Technique.
- Fiction.
- Fiction--Authorship.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 234 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, New York : Viking, [2016]
- Summary:
- A targeted and insightful guide to the stages of writing fiction and memoir without falling into common traps, while wisely navigating the writing life, from an award-winning author and longtime teacher.
- Contents:
- Part I: The kite and the string
- 1. Writing with freedom and common sense
- Part II: People taking action
- 2. Imagine
- 3. What to do with a good idea
- 4. Let happenings happen
- 5. Become someone else
- Part III: Stories and books: start to finish
- 6. Recognize stories, envision books
- 7. What killed the queen? and other uncertainties that keep a reader reading
- Part IV: Choosing to speak
- 8. Silence and storytelling
- Part V: Living to tell the tale
- 9. Revising our thought bubbles.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-225) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Scott fund bookplate.
- ISBN:
- 9780525428541
- 0525428542
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