Understanding Show, Don't Tell: And Really Getting It - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Understanding Show, Don't Tell: And Really Getting It write by Janice Hardy. This book was released on 2016-10. Understanding Show, Don't Tell: And Really Getting It available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book looks at what affects told prose and when telling is the right thing to do. It also explores aspects of writing that aren't technically telling, but are connected to told prose and can make prose feel told, such as infodumps, description, and backstory.
Show, Don't Tell
Show, Don't Tell - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Show, Don't Tell write by Sandra Gerth. This book was released on 2018-02-10. Show, Don't Tell available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Show, don't tell is probably the single most-important piece of advice given to writers. But many writers struggle to understand this powerful principle or have difficulty applying it to their own work. Even experienced authors sometimes don't grasp the finer nuances of showing and telling. In this book, Sandra Gerth draws on her experience as an editor and best-selling author to show you how to show and tell you when to tell. Each chapter includes concrete examples and exercises that will hone your writing skills." - Back Cover
Show Don’t Tell
Show Don’t Tell - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Show Don’t Tell write by William Noble. This book was released on 2013-11-13. Show Don’t Tell available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. If one hears one thing from every single writing instructor it’s, “Show, don’t tell.” “Don’t tell us he’s afraid of losing her, show us!” “Don’t tell us it’s a richly decorated room, show us!” “Don’t tell us the Russian tundra is cold, show us!” Easier said than done, and no one ever wrote a book on how to do it, that is until William Noble wrote this classic work a decade ago. From the use of dialogue to employing melodrama to developing incidents and anecdotes, Show Don’t Tell explains how to entertain your readers instead of lecturing to them. Written in Noble’s absorbing voice, Show Don’t Tell illustrates how to develop a dramatic framework using similes and metaphors, a focused point of view, steady pacing, increasing tension, and an appeal to the senses to create solid dramatic impact. In other words, how to show, not tell! Perfect for novelists, short story writers, and those interested in writing creative nonfiction.
Workshops of Empire
Workshops of Empire - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Workshops of Empire write by Eric Bennett. This book was released on 2015-10-15. Workshops of Empire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. During and just after World War II, an influential group of American writers and intellectuals projected a vision for literature that would save the free world. Novels, stories, plays, and poems, they believed, could inoculate weak minds against simplistic totalitarian ideologies, heal the spiritual wounds of global catastrophe, and just maybe prevent the like from happening again. As the Cold War began, high-minded and well-intentioned scholars, critics, and writers from across the political spectrum argued that human values remained crucial to civilization and that such values stood in dire need of formulation and affirmation. They believed that the complexity of literature—of ideas bound to concrete images, of ideologies leavened with experiences—enshrined such values as no other medium could. Creative writing emerged as a graduate discipline in the United States amid this astonishing swirl of grand conceptions. The early workshops were formed not only at the time of, but in the image of, and under the tremendous urgency of, the postwar imperatives for the humanities. Vivid renderings of personal experience would preserve the liberal democratic soul—a soul menaced by the gathering leftwing totalitarianism of the USSR and the memory of fascism in Italy and Germany. Workshops of Empire explores this history via the careers of Paul Engle at the University of Iowa and Wallace Stegner at Stanford. In the story of these founding fathers of the discipline, Eric Bennett discovers the cultural, political, literary, intellectual, and institutional underpinnings of creative writing programs within the university. He shows how the model of literary technique championed by the first writing programs—a model that values the interior and private life of the individual, whose experiences are not determined by any community, ideology, or political system—was born out of this Cold War context and continues to influence the way creative writing is taught, studied, read, and written into the twenty-first century.
If He Had Been with Me
If He Had Been with Me - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook If He Had Been with Me write by Laura Nowlin. This book was released on 2013-04-02. If He Had Been with Me available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. If he had been with me everything would have been different... I wasn't with Finn on that August night. But I should've been. It was raining, of course. And he and Sylvie were arguing as he drove down the slick road. No one ever says what they were arguing about. Other people think it's not important. They do not know there is another story. The story that lurks between the facts. What they do not know—the cause of the argument—is crucial. So let me tell you...
