Use your words : a writing guide for mothers /
Hopper, Kathryn Ann 1972-
Use your words : a writing guide for mothers / by Kate Hopper (fowarded by Hope Edelman). - 1st ed. - Berkeley, CA : Viva Editions, c2012. - xxi, 229 p. ; 21 cm.
Includes index.
Advance praise for Use Your Words; Table of Contents; Foreword; Introduction: Why Use Your Words?; Chapter 1: Getting Started; Chapter 2: Creative Nonfiction and Motherhood; Chapter 3: Motherhood Myths and Models; Chapter 4: Our Children as Characters: Character Development; Chapter 5: Voice Increative Nonfiction; Chapter 6: Using Humor as a Tool; Chapter 7: Mother Fear; Chapter 8: Writing the Hard Stuff; Chapter 9: Where Is Your Mind?: Reflection in Creative Nonfiction; Chapter 10: Our Parenting Partners; Chapter 11: Structure: How to Put It Together; Chapter 12: Re-Visioning Your Writing. Chapter 13: Publishing: From Blogs to BooksChapter 14: Keeping the Momentum Going; Appendix; Contributors; Acknowledgments; About the Author; To Our Readers.
USE YOUR WORDS introduces the art of creative nonfiction to women who want to give written expression to their lives as mothers. Written by award-winning teacher and writer, Kate Hopper, this book will help women find the heart of their writing, learn to use motherhood as a lens through which to write the world, and turn their motherhood stories into art. Each chapter of USE YOUR WORDS focuses on an element of craft and contains a lecture, a published essay, and writing exercises that will serve as jumping-off points for the readers' own writing. Chapter topics include: the importance of using.
9781936740123 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Creative writing.
Creative nonfiction.
Mothers--Authorship.
Motherhood.
Parenting.
Escritura creativa
Madres --Paternidad literaria.
Crianza de niños
PN 145 / H798u 2012
808/.0420852
Use your words : a writing guide for mothers / by Kate Hopper (fowarded by Hope Edelman). - 1st ed. - Berkeley, CA : Viva Editions, c2012. - xxi, 229 p. ; 21 cm.
Includes index.
Advance praise for Use Your Words; Table of Contents; Foreword; Introduction: Why Use Your Words?; Chapter 1: Getting Started; Chapter 2: Creative Nonfiction and Motherhood; Chapter 3: Motherhood Myths and Models; Chapter 4: Our Children as Characters: Character Development; Chapter 5: Voice Increative Nonfiction; Chapter 6: Using Humor as a Tool; Chapter 7: Mother Fear; Chapter 8: Writing the Hard Stuff; Chapter 9: Where Is Your Mind?: Reflection in Creative Nonfiction; Chapter 10: Our Parenting Partners; Chapter 11: Structure: How to Put It Together; Chapter 12: Re-Visioning Your Writing. Chapter 13: Publishing: From Blogs to BooksChapter 14: Keeping the Momentum Going; Appendix; Contributors; Acknowledgments; About the Author; To Our Readers.
USE YOUR WORDS introduces the art of creative nonfiction to women who want to give written expression to their lives as mothers. Written by award-winning teacher and writer, Kate Hopper, this book will help women find the heart of their writing, learn to use motherhood as a lens through which to write the world, and turn their motherhood stories into art. Each chapter of USE YOUR WORDS focuses on an element of craft and contains a lecture, a published essay, and writing exercises that will serve as jumping-off points for the readers' own writing. Chapter topics include: the importance of using.
9781936740123 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Creative writing.
Creative nonfiction.
Mothers--Authorship.
Motherhood.
Parenting.
Escritura creativa
Madres --Paternidad literaria.
Crianza de niños
PN 145 / H798u 2012
808/.0420852