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Infuse emotion into your fiction with three key strategies from Margot Livesey.
Christopher Castellani dumps the write what you know maxim and challenges you to really delve into the imagination.
A point-of-view drill from Susan Straight can be just the breakthrough you need to flesh out your story.
Jewell Parker Rhodes shares how good dialogue is not just about what is being said but about what is being left unsaid.
Brimming with imaginative springboards and hands-on exercises, Naming the World has everything you need to become a stronger, more inventive writer.
A delicious book. Imagine yourself at a cocktail party crammed with literary lions. You have the chance to spend a few moments with each of them. Wit and wisdom abound.
Julia Cameron, author of The Artists Way
A highly useful and perceptive book. With charm and intelligence it touches on nearly every teachable aspect of the devilishly difficult art of writing.
Ethan Canin, professor of creative writing at the Iowa Writers Workshop, and author of Carry Me Across the Water
These entertaining and useful exercises, intelligently organized, are a boon for both beginning and experienced writers.
Andrea Barrett, National Book Awardwinning author of The Air We Breathe
Forget about getting an MFA! For any writer struggling with his craft, here is the equivalent of a master class in writing by some of the best writer/teachers around.
Betsy Lerner, author of The Forest for the Trees: An Editors Advice to Writers
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ADVANCE PRAISE FOR
I always thought there were no secrets to writing well, that only hard work, rare talent, and plenty of luck made a writer good. Naming the World proved me wrongit opens the doors to some of the best writing classes in the country, the best teachers, and the minds of many of the best writers themselves. A fantastic resource for any writer (or writing teacher) looking for inspiration or guidance or support.
H EIDI P ITLOR , series editor of The Best American Short Stories, and author of The Birthdays
Forget about getting an MFA! Bret Anthony Johnston has put together the equivalent of a master class in writing by some of the best writers/teachers around. Here are the nuts and here are the bolts for any writer struggling with the essentials of his craft.
B ETSY L ERNER , author of The Forest for the Trees: An Editor's Advice to Writers
Here's a book full of bright doorways into our writing, set out with specificity and reason. Not only is Naming the World a rich compendium of provocative prompts, but as a whole it serves as a timely conversation of the larger aesthetic of well-made fiction, a roomful of caring experts. Mr. Johnston, by assembling these worthy exercises, has done us all a valuable favor.
R ON C ARLSON , director of the Graduate Program in Fiction at the University of California, Irvine, and author of Five Skies
At lastthe book about writing I have been needing for years and that I will now keep on my desk at all times. Witty, warm, intuitive, inspiring, and hopeful, the writers gathered here feel like the best possible company as we all attempt to do this impossible, vital thing called writing.
S TACEY D' ERASMO , assistant professor of writing at Columbia University, and author ofA Seahorse Year
In memory of Frank Conroy,
whose presence here is as profound as his absence
INTRODUCTION
Bret Anthony Johnston
GERMS
John Dufresne
WRITING PROMPTS
Joyce Carol Oates
NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH
Christopher Castellani
FICTION THROUGH ARTIFACTS
Thisbe Nissen
THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING ENVIOUS
Tom Robbins
MOURNING FALLS, USA
Daniel Wallace
A POSTCARD FROM THE VELVET REVOLUTION
Rachel Cline
WHAT IF IT WAS MORE THAN THAT?
Lee Martin
THE TITLE GAME EXERCISE
Dan Chaon
LIVING TO TELL, TELLING TO LIVE
Norma E. Cant
MY FAVORITE FICTION-WRITING EXERCISE
Alan Cheuse
HOW TO NAME THE WORLD
Bret Anthony Johnston
UNTOLD STORIES
Dorothy Allison
BULLIES I HAVE KNOWN
C. Michael Curtis
OUR EVER-CURIOUS MINDS
Tom Barbash
ADOPT A MYTH
Tom Bligh
ON CHARACTER
Bret Anthony Johnston
WRITING AS PARLOR GAME
Debra Spark
OBJECT OF AFFECTION
R. T. Smith
NONFICTION TIME-TRAVEL EXERCISE
Kyoko Mori
YOUR FIVE SECONDS OF SHAME!
Steve Almond
INTERVIEWING YOUR CHARACTER
Ann Packer
FROM AUTOBIOGRAPHY TO FICTION
Jason Brown
PUTTING CHARACTERS INTO ACTION
Varley O'Connor
SUBVERSIVE DETAILS AND CHARACTERIZATION
Lee Martin
COMPLEX CHARACTERS
Eric Goodman
TWO LITERARY EXERCISES
Melissa Pritchard
GET CLOSER
Julia Fierro
THROUGH YOUR CHARACTER'S EYES
Michael Knight
ON POINT OF VIEW
Bret Anthony Johnston
STRATEGIES OF THE STORYTELLER
Thane Rosenbaum
EXERCISE ON POINT OF VIEW
Elizabeth Strout
THE POINT OF POINT OF VIEW
Paula Priamos
AN EXERCISE IN WRITING MEMOIR
James Brown
WHAT DO YOU WANT MOST IN LIFE?
Vu Tran
POINT-OF-VIEW EXERCISE FOR PROSE WRITERS
Susan Straight
TWO EXERCISES
Tom Grimes
THE CHICKEN CROSSED THE ROAD
Katherine Min
WALKING A MILE IN THEIR SHOES
Amy Hassinger
THE GLORY OF GOSSIP
Bret Anthony Johnston
ON PLOT AND NARRATIVE
Bret Anthony Johnston
THE FIVE MODES
Dan Pope
THICKENING YOUR PLOTS
Jacob M. Appel
THE PLEASURE PRINCIPLE
Josh Emmons
FROM ANECDOTE TO STORY
Elizabeth McCracken
SEEING THE SCENE
Adam Johnson
THE PARTICULAR GESTURE: WRITING SEX SCENES
Michelle Wildgen
CREATING THE MEMORY MAP FOR YOUR MEMOIR
Danielle Trussoni
USEFUL LIES
Robert Boswell
REWRITING THE CLICHS
Aimee Phan
FROM IMAGINATION TO PLOT
Vanessa Furse Jackson
WHAT EVERY FICTION WRITER CAN LEARN ABOUT PLOT FROM THAT LOVABLE, FURRY OLD GROVER
Bret Anthony Johnston
ON PLOT
Michelle Wildgen
RECYCLING PROPS
Nick Arvin
ON DIALOGUE AND VOICE
Bret Anthony Johnston
DYNAMIC DIALOGUE
Jewell Parker Rhodes
HE SAID WHAT?
Colette Sartor
CHARACTER AND SITUATION THROUGH DIALOGUE
Richard Bausch
ON DIALOGUE
Katherine Min
THE THING ABOUT DIALOGUE
Bret Anthony Johnston & Robert Torres, Illustrator
USING SUMMARY, INDIRECT, AND DIRECT DIALOGUE
Robert Rosenberg
DIALOGUE: MASTER OF MULTITASKING AND SLEIGHT OF HAND
Kate Myers Hanson
THE FOREIGN VOICE
Jos Skinner
A DIALOGUE EXERCISE
Michael Jaime-Becerra
ON DESCRIPTIVE LANGUAGE AND SETTING
Bret Anthony Johnston
DESTROYING WHAT YOU LOVE
Sarah Shun-lien Bynum
A STRANGER COMES TO TOWN
Rebecca Johns
THE MONSTER IN THE ATTIC
Jonathan Liebson
SIMULTANEOUS ACTIONS IN FICTION
DeWitt Henry
LEARNING TO LIE
Mark Winegardner
ARTISTIC PERSPECTIVE
Nick Arvin
ALL ABOUT RHYTHM
Paul Lisicky
EMOTION IN FICTION
Margot Livesey
ON REVISION
Bret Anthony Johnston
THE FIRST DRAFT OF ANYTHING
Don Lee
ON THE WHEEL
John Smolens
SILENCES AND BLANK SPACES
Ren Steinke
RESEEING IN REVISION
Jason Brown
REVISE, REENVISION, REINVENT
Holiday Reinhorn
HIDING THE I IN FICTION AND NONFICTION
Marlin Barton
SHOPPING FOR CONFLICT IN THE SECOND DRAFT
Merrill Feitell
THE RIGHT WORD IN TAILS
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