Written by best-selling author Janet Burroway, " Imaginative Writing" -- an introduction to creative writing -- covers all four genres: creative no...
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Jan 01, 2012
Clare
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This is a large and detailed book on how to engage in creative writing. Each chapter contains explanations of various elements such as ‘image’, ‘voice’, ‘character’. It covers techniques of fiction writing, creative non fiction, poetry and drama.
Each chapter contains short exercises scattered throughout the text but handily enclosed in highlighted text boxes. These can be undertaken in writ More...
This is a large and detailed book on how to engage in creative writing. Each chapter contains explanations of various elements such as ‘image’, ‘voice’, ‘character’. It covers techniques of fiction writing, creative non fiction, poetry and drama.
Each chapter contains short exercises scattered throughout the text but handily enclosed in highlighted text boxes. These can be undertaken in writ More...
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Jan 01, 2008
Kristin
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It really depends on how one teaches an intro. class in creative writing, I think. I don't personally like the break-down of image, voice, etc. before / separate from the chapters on genre. However, I can easily see how it would work and why the book was put together this way. It's just difficult for me in terms of time and getting students writing specific pieces that focus on structure, etc., as opposed to focusing on part of craft (such as image) while writing in any genre.... But, what do
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Sep 03, 2011
Kelly Lynn
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This book covers fiction, poetry and creative nonfiction so it's a good overview. The only reason I gave it three stars is Janet Burroway is kind of obnoxious and condescending and obviously thinks she's better than you, the reader, and reminds you of that fact at every possible opportunity.
Dec 10, 2008
Katie
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I really enjoyed the stories and poems that were in this book like snow day by billy collins, sitting with the dead by william trevor, interpretor of maladies by jhumpa lahiri, the school by donald barthelme, trials of a tourist by annie tibble and more
Dec 08, 2008
Rashaan
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Excellent basic reference for any writing class, including composition--not just creative writing! The exercises are great starter points for details, revisions, and developing voice. Loads of material to use.
Jan 31, 2008
Michael
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We've just begun theSpring 2008 semester, and this is my first term teaching this title by Burroway (whose book, "Writing Fiction" I've often used for a class by the same title). It's actually a multi-genre book, covering fiction, poetry, scripting, and creative non-fiction, so it's useful in Intro to Creative Writing courses (I'm using it in a 'topics' course in Horror & Suspense writing, because the examples she chooses cover the basics of the craft in great ways...any book that hol
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Sep 16, 2008
Angela
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A good overview of all four genres. As always, Burroway does a great job teaching the nuts and bolts of good writing, and her own writing is clear and clean and interesting. My one complaint is I wish I liked some of the fiction and creative nonfiction included in the book a little better. But overall, a very helpful tool for teaching an intro to creative writing course.
Dec 06, 2009
Karen
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Because of their strident whimsy, I soon took all the try-this excercises to be rhetorical questions. What if your main character was a giraffe? What does it have in it's pockets?
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