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Title: Imaginative Writing : The Elements of Craft (Penguin Academics Series) by Janet Burroway ISBN: 0-321-08191-9 Publisher: Pearson Education Pub. Date: 05 August, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $33.33 |
Average Customer Rating: 3 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Fresh?
Comment: Not to start a war here, but Janet Burroway's book *is* fresh, and it's the best, most comprehensive multigenre text on the market. And it's affordable both for university students and writers who want to use it on their own. No, it's not full of inspirational gobbledygook and gimmicky suggestions to touch the heart of the writer. Instead, it's a very smart book that asks the writer to join in the long histories of the genres it discusses and offers the most succinctly articulated descriptions of techniques and approaches that will not only get a writer started writing but that will also help that writer understand what makes good writing good. The most innovative aspect of Burroway's book is that it takes creative writing as a whole and discusses those basic elements that make all writing good, from the need for concrete imagery that says something to the need for narrative to move and develop across a work. And it offers dozens and dozens of recent examples to illustrate its points. As an anthology alone, this book would be a good read. But Burroway's comments very aptly help a reader to understand what is working well in each of her excerpts. No, it doesn't offer up elaborate metaphors about bones or light or any inner writing child as a way to nurture the soul of the writer. But from my experience as a writing instructor, it's not the soul of the beginning writer that needs nurturing. This book understands quite well the need to nurture the mind of the writer first.
Rating: 1
Summary: not much of an imaginative book
Comment: Sorry, but this is a less than average book on writing. It's dated in its attitude toward fresh writing. Its a rehash with no original thought. The book's texts fall way short of its title. In five words, it is dry and boring. The author makes many pronouncments that often amount to trite and trivial, rather than relaying info to the writer that is fresh, sparkling. Consider instead Carolyn See's books on writing. See's books are helpful, vibrate with energy, unlike this one by Burroiay. Other authors on writing like Heilburn and Goldberg and Dillard and La Mott also do not have that tired-out attitude of 'only we three people in the world really know what great literature is."
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Title: Writing Fiction (6th Edition) by Janet Burroway, Susan Weinberg ISBN: 0321117956 Publisher: Pearson Education Pub. Date: 10 July, 2002 List Price(USD): $58.00 |
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Title: Trouble With the Machine by Christopher Kennedy ISBN: 0972336311 Publisher: Low Fidelity Press Pub. Date: 01 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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Title: Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within by Natalie Goldberg ISBN: 0877733759 Publisher: Shambhala Publications Pub. Date: 01 October, 1986 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: The Story and Its Writer: An Introduction to Short Fiction by Ann Charters ISBN: 0312397291 Publisher: Bedford Books Pub. Date: 01 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $62.50 |
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Title: The Playwright's Handbook by Frank Pike, Thomas G. Dunn ISBN: 0452275881 Publisher: Plume Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 1996 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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