From where you dream : the process of writing fiction / Robert Olen Butler ; edited, with an introduction by Janet Burroway,

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Author / Creator:Butler, Robert Olen. author
Imprint:New York : Grove Press, c2005.
Description:269 pages ; 22 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5626068
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Other authors / contributors:Burroway, Janet.
ISBN:0802117953
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Part I. The Lectures
  • 1. Boot Camp
  • 2. The Zone
  • 3. Yearning
  • 4. Cinema of the Mind
  • 5. A Writer Prepares
  • Part II. The Workshop
  • 6. Reading, Lit Crit, and the Workshop
  • 7. The Bad Story
  • 8. The Anecdote Exercise
  • 9. The Written Exercise
  • Part III. The Stories, Analyzed
  • 10. "Flamenco"
  • 11. "My Impossibles"
  • 12. "My Summer in Vulcan"
  • Appendix. "Open Arms"