Everyday Creative Writing : Panning for Gold in the Kitchen Sink,9780844203386

Everyday Creative Writing : Panning for Gold in the Kitchen Sink

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Edition: 2nd
ISBN13: 9780844203386
ISBN10: 0844203386
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1999-08-01
Publisher(s): McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
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Summary

Lead students on an exploration of their everyday lives to find inspiration and ideas. Over forty invention exercises show students how to mine their creativity to find gold-creative writing gold-even in the murky bubbles of the kitchen sink.A variety of prewriting tools make it easy for students to dig in and get started, from freewriting and free association to puzzles and computer gaming. Invention exercises spark creativity by using experiences, behaviors, and objects that students are very familiar with, such as family, routines, work, travel, and romance.Everyday Creative Writing also shows students how to assess the quality of what they have written and provides guidelines for submitting finished work for publication.

Table of Contents

Preface xiii
Introduction xvii
Provisions and Prospecting Tools
1(24)
Provisions
2(5)
Optional Provisions
7(1)
Prospecting Tools
7(13)
Freewriting
8(1)
Brainstorming
9(1)
Listing
10(1)
Clustering
11(1)
Free Association
11(2)
Puzzles, Games, and Computers
13(2)
Using Your Computer
15(2)
Resistance as a Tool
17(1)
Using a Combination of Tools
18(2)
What From Should You Choose?
20(5)
Consider Writing a Poem from an Exercise if
20(1)
Consider Writing a Story from an Exercise if
21(1)
Consider Writing an Essay from an Exercise if
22(3)
Around The House
25(52)
Why I Will Not Get Out of Bed
26(4)
Holding On and Letting Go
30(4)
Furniture Movers
34(3)
Baggage
37(4)
At The Dinner Table
41(4)
Paper Trails
45(3)
I Have Been Eating Boredom
48(3)
Home Contractors
51(3)
Honey, I'm Home
54(3)
The Evolution of Mini-Skills
57(3)
The Note Read, ``There Are More Where These Came From''
60(3)
Quilting
63(4)
The Family Normal
67(4)
Photo Album
71(3)
Product Warnings
74(3)
Down the Street
77(48)
Getting Lost, Finding the Way
78(3)
Excuses, Excuses, Excuses
81(3)
Caught Up in The News
84(2)
Neighborly and Unneighborly Neighbors
86(4)
Customs and The Customary
90(3)
Building Codes and Zones
93(3)
``I Would Have Burned My Hair For That Waitress''
96(3)
Community Service
99(3)
The Road Not Taken
102(3)
The Backpack
105(3)
Around The Water Cooler
108(4)
Checking Out The Checkout Line
112(2)
Exit Interview
114(4)
Modern Romance
118(3)
Half Accountant, Half Bartender
121(4)
In the Gold Mine
125(50)
The Elements
126(3)
Folk Remedies
129(3)
The Cliche's The Thing
132(4)
Crossing Relationship Boundaries
136(2)
What Things Say
138(3)
Changes In Preference
141(2)
Subtitles and Doubletalk
143(3)
Setting as Character
146(3)
Comparing Apples and Orangutans
149(3)
Citizen Oz
152(4)
He Said, Winkingly
156(4)
Character By Association
160(4)
``My Mother Was Like an Ornate Castle''
164(3)
As Restless as Pantyhose
167(3)
Implausible Causes and Unlikely Effects
170(5)
Assaying: How Do You Know It's Gold?
175(12)
Does It Glitter: Freshness and Originality
177(6)
The Topic or Piece of Writing Keeps Coming Back to You
177(1)
You Find Yourself ``Working'' on the Piece Without Deliberately Trying To
178(1)
The Beginning of the Piece Helped You Discover Something You Didn't Know About Yourself or Someone Else or the Human Condition
178(1)
You Are Intrigued by an Odd or Original Connection You Have Made Between Two Seemingly Very Different Things
178(1)
You Introduced a Character You Like a Great Deal and Are Concerned About What Might Happen to Her or Him
179(1)
You Introduced a Character You Dislike and Are Concerned About the Damage He or She May Do
179(1)
You Love the Sound of the Words You Have Strung Together
180(1)
You Feel Like You Could Write a Lot More About This
180(1)
You're Dying to Send/Show the Piece to Others
180(1)
You Feel That What You Have Written Is Fresh or Original
180(2)
You Believe That What You Have Written Honestly Expresses Some of Your Feelings
182(1)
You Have Created Tension or Conflict
182(1)
How to Sort Real Gold from Fool's Gold
183(2)
Be Sure That What You Have Written Doesn't Descend into Cliche
183(2)
Beware of What Too Easily Amuses or Impresses You
185(1)
Some Final Thoughts
185(2)
From Nuggets to Artifacts: Finishing What You Started
187(12)
When You Get Stuck Writing a Poem
189(4)
Play Out the Language
189(2)
Choose Random Words from Another Source
191(1)
Start Saying the Opposite
191(1)
Repeat the Last Word, Phrase, Line, or Stanza
192(1)
Rhyme the Last Line and Move in the Direction of the Rhymed Word
192(1)
Transpose the First Stanza and the Last Stanza
192(1)
Inject a Memory or a Dream
192(1)
When You Get Stuck Writing a Story
193(2)
Add a Character
193(1)
Let Your Characters Lead
193(1)
Create a Scene
193(1)
Add Weather
194(1)
Add Trouble
194(1)
Raise the Stakes
194(1)
Add a Second Story
194(1)
When You Get Stuck Writing a Creative Essay
195(1)
Interview Someone
195(1)
Interview Yourself
195(1)
Look Up Unusual Facts Surrounding Your Subject
195(1)
Employ Fictional Techniques
195(1)
Begin Your Next Paragraph with a Particular Moment
195(1)
Create a Bold, New Organizing Strategy
195(1)
Take a Trip
196(1)
When You Get Stuck in General
196(3)
Don't Insist on Knowing Where You're Going
196(1)
Use Exercises in this Book as Prompts for Scenes, Stanzas, or New Ideas
197(1)
Start a List
197(1)
Start in the Middle of the Story, Poem, or Essay
197(1)
Shift Something: Point of View, Time Period, Voice, or Tone
197(1)
Write About What Is Going On in or Around You at the Moment You Get Stuck
198(1)
Stop Writing in the Middle of a Scene, Stanza, or Line
198(1)
Gold Futures: Prospects for Publication
199(10)
Finding a Home for Your Work
200(2)
Contests and Vanity Presses
201(1)
Publishing on the Internet
202(1)
How to Submit Work
202(1)
Include a Very Brief Cover Letter
203(1)
Include a Self-Addressed, Stamped Envelope
203(1)
Manuscript Mechanics
203(2)
For Further Reading
205(4)
Acknowledgments 209(4)
Subject Index 213(4)
Author/Title Index 217

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