The writer's portable mentor : a guide to art, craft, and the writing life

The writer's portable mentor : a guide to art, craft, and the writing life /

"Designed to mentor writers at all levels, from beginning to quite advanced. The Writer's Portable Mentor offers a wealth of insight and craft models from the author's twenty-plus years of teaching and creative thought. The book provides tools for structuring a book, story, or essay....

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Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Main Author: Long, Priscilla (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Albuquerque, NM : University of New Mexico Press, 2018
Edition:Second edition.
Subjects:
Authorship > Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Authorship.
Authorship
authorship.
handbooks.
Handbooks and manuals.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Half title
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Preface to the Second Edition
  • Introduction: A Writer's Practice
  • How to Use This Book
  • Part I. Your Move
  • 1. Daily Writing
  • 2. Working with Language
  • Gathering Words
  • Diction Primer
  • Where to Find Good Words
  • The Lexicon Practice
  • Words as Notes
  • Sound Effects
  • Repetition
  • Verb Work
  • 3. Writing to See
  • Observing the Here and Now
  • Seeing Color
  • Observing Persons
  • Observing Gesture
  • Observing Voice
  • 4. Object and Setting
  • Part II. Finding a Structure
  • 5. Thinking Structure
  • Finding the Right One
  • Inventing a Structure
  • Structuring a Book
  • Word Counts
  • 6. Theme Structure
  • "Ben Webster" by Ira Sadoff
  • "Home" by John Olson
  • 7. Collage Structure
  • "Babylon" by Eula Biss
  • "Laughter" by Patrick Madden
  • 8. The A/B or Two-Strand Structure
  • "The Servant of Two Masters" by Amit Majmudar
  • "Buzzards" by Lee Zacharias
  • 9. Dramatic Story Structure
  • "A Dream of Sleep" by Steve Almond
  • 10. How to Open
  • Part III. The Art of the Sentence and the Art of the Paragraph
  • 11. Sentence Craft
  • 12. Fragments
  • 13. The Simple Sentence
  • 14. The Compound Sentence
  • 15. The Complex (and Compound-Complex) Sentence
  • Compound-Complex Sentences
  • 16. The List Sentence
  • 17. The Phrase
  • The Prepositional Phrase
  • 18. Passive Voice
  • 19. The Art of the Paragraph
  • Type 1. The Direct Paragraph
  • Type 2. The Climactic Paragraph
  • Type 3. The Turnabout Paragraph
  • Type 4. The Other One
  • 20. Transitions
  • Transition by Repetition
  • Transition by Synonym or Pronoun
  • From This Time to the Next Time
  • From This Place to the Next Place
  • From Facts to Meaning
  • Moving with the Mind
  • From Real to Magic or Mythic Real
  • And, But, or So at the Beginning
  • 21. The Practice of Punctuation
  • Commas and Semicolons in a List.
  • Phrasal Adjectives
  • Dash and Colon
  • Interrupters
  • Part IV. Honing, Deepening, Stretching
  • 22. Metaphor and Simile
  • Avoiding Literary Shipwrecks
  • Definitions and Principles
  • Forms of Metaphor
  • 23. Extending Connections, Deepening Insight
  • Ask Questions
  • Connect with a Wider World
  • Reading
  • Intention
  • 24. On Revision
  • Work vs. Talent
  • Part V. Getting the Work into the World
  • 25. Literary vs. Commercial Writing
  • 26. First Time Out
  • Writing Buddies
  • Critique Groups
  • Presenting and Performing
  • 27. Sending Your Work Out
  • Simultaneous Submissions?
  • Read the Market
  • What about Self-Publishing?
  • "It's Who You Know"
  • 28. The Practice of Productivity
  • The List of Works
  • Working and Playing with the Work
  • 29. Success
  • Acknowledgments for the First Edition
  • Bibliography
  • Credits
  • Index.

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