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Turning life into fiction / Robin Hemley.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publication details: St. Paul, Minn. : Graywolf Press, c2006.Edition: New, updated and expanded edDescription: 327 p. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 1555974449 (alk. paper)
  • 9781555974442
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 808.3
LOC classification:
  • PN 3355 H488t 2006
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Contents:
Introduction : experience versus the imagination : a transformation -- 1. Journals : recording and generating ideas -- 2. Finding your form : choosing between memoir and novel, transforming anecdotes into stories -- 3. Focusing real life : imposing order on experience through characterization, plot, point of view, and other elements of craft -- 4. Real people : transforming real people into fictional characters, creating composite characters -- 5. Real stories : writing stories of family, childhood, jobs, and other true experiences; finding story ideas in the media, in dreams, in chance discoveries -- 6. Real places : creating fictional settings from actual places -- 7. Writing (and rewriting) with authority : weaving research into fiction, gaining distance on material, revising fiction -- 9. Legal and ethical concerns : using real names and people -- what writers can and cannot do.
Summary: "In Turning Life into Fiction, Robin Hemley offers a highly entertaining and in-depth manual - including writing exercises - on how to convert real life into good storytelling. He covers a wide range of subjects, including how to record and generate ideas from daily life and how to write effectively using true anecdotes, real places, and real people. A self-proclaimed liar and thief, Hemley also addresses the legal and ethical concerns of borrowing experience from the lives of strangers and loved ones."--BOOK JACKET
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Libro Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Humanidades Humanidades (4to. Piso) PN 3355 H488t 2006 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00000136321

Introduction : experience versus the imagination : a transformation --
1. Journals : recording and generating ideas --
2. Finding your form : choosing between memoir and novel, transforming anecdotes into stories --
3. Focusing real life : imposing order on experience through characterization, plot, point of view, and other elements of craft --
4. Real people : transforming real people into fictional characters, creating composite characters --
5. Real stories : writing stories of family, childhood, jobs, and other true experiences; finding story ideas in the media, in dreams, in chance discoveries --
6. Real places : creating fictional settings from actual places --
7. Writing (and rewriting) with authority : weaving research into fiction, gaining distance on material, revising fiction --
9. Legal and ethical concerns : using real names and people --
what writers can and cannot do.

"In Turning Life into Fiction, Robin Hemley offers a highly entertaining and in-depth manual - including writing exercises - on how to convert real life into good storytelling. He covers a wide range of subjects, including how to record and generate ideas from daily life and how to write effectively using true anecdotes, real places, and real people. A self-proclaimed liar and thief, Hemley also addresses the legal and ethical concerns of borrowing experience from the lives of strangers and loved ones."--BOOK JACKET

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