Resonance : essays on the craft and life of writing / edited by Andrew Chesham & Laura Farina.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Chesham, Andrew, editor.

Farina, Laura, 1980- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Authorship.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (237 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Vancouver, B.C. : Anvil Press Publishers Inc., [2022]

Summary:

Through forty-three personal essays, Resonance: Essays on the Craft and Life of Writing brings together insights from writers and publishers across Canada on the practices that fuel their work, and invites readers to join the conversation through a series of engaging writing prompts. The essays collected here include strategies for pre-writing, writing and revision, as well as thoughts on the writing life and the world of writing. Resonance is for any writer of fiction, non-fiction or poetry who has ever wanted a helping hand, a quick chat, or a word of encouragement along the lonely road from blank page to published work. Resonance seeks to build community and extend the practice of creativity to writers everywhere.

Contents:

Intro

Half Title Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Table of Contents

Introduction

Awake in the World

Birds Outside the Boardroom Windows

Writing Obsessed: The Compulsion to Write and Staying True to a Story

Write about Something Else: Purging Negative Thoughts

In Praise of Daydreams and Laundry

Movement as Sustenance for Your Writing Practice

Grammar for Writers: It’s Not What You Think

The Art of Rereading

Memoir in the Eye of the Storm

Write Your Grain of Sand

The Familiar in the Familiar Essay

For Memoirists

Dangerous Territories: On Writing and Risk

Writing from the Edges: We Are So Much More than Our Circumstances

Autobiography of This Essay

Mining for Details: The Motherlode of Non-fiction

Bursting into Imagery: The Dangerous Poetic Present

The Power of Adjacency

A Moment for the Craft: Poetry

How I Learned, Am Learning: An Essay

Poetry in Prose β€” Crossing Genres or And Now a Word from Our Sponsors

The Perfect Setting: Everywhere and Nowhere

Art Inspired Writing

A Character Is Not an Island: Creating Character Networks

So You Want to Write about Race

The Five Things Counselling Can Teach Us about Writing and Character Development

Stepping into Perspective

Point of View: The Struggle Is Real

Character Creates Plot

On Praxis

Proximity in Our Writing, with Other Writers &amp

with Our Readers

The Rupture

Synecdoche β€” Rewriting a Novel: How to Hold the Whole in Mind, While Rewriting the Part

To Unpack or Not to Unpack β€” That Is the Question

Ghosts in Elevators: How to Edit a Poem

Life, Revised: Coaxing Autofiction Out of Tender Memories

The Draft in the Drawer

Giving Voice to Your Words

Tooling around the Befores and Afters

Publishing as Alchemy

Out in the Deep End.

Notes on Publishing Literary Books

The Stories We Tell

Contributors

Acknowledgments

The Writers Studio.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Chesham, Andrew Resonance

ISBN:

9781772142372

1772142379