Finding Your Writer's Voice: A Guide to Creative Fiction by Thaisa Frank, Dorothy Wall

Finding Your Writer's Voice: A Guide to Creative Fiction Thaisa Frank, Dorothy Wall ebook
Page: 256
Format: pdf
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 9780312151287

Dante had Virgil to guide him in his pilgrimage through hell, purgatory, and heaven. When I discovered creative nonfiction I'd just turned thirty, was self-schooled in queer and activist literatures, newly in love with the woman who is still my spouse, newly sober, even newly tattooed, and recently returned to university. When you picture When I wrote The Artist's Torah, my guide to the creative process, I did exactly that—spent hundreds of pages articulating the spiritual nature of creativity. However, Charles, I will grant you that for many of my students, blogging (which is a kind of epublishing) has helped them find their voice, a community, a sense of purpose. {an interview with writer, David Ebenbach}. The days of teaching literature or creative writing at college are slowly coming to an end, as are the days of making a real good living as a writer — at least for the vast majority of us. The key is to always make sure we tell the truth, even (especially) in our fiction, no matter how uncomfortable it makes us, no matter how hard it is to express. If an author will choose a genre, then whittle all the ideas whirling in her head down to one kernel idea, she will be closer to finding her unique writing voice than had she just started writing. I'd dropped out of I do find the current controversies compelling and do read and teach (along with under-recognized books by queers, women, and writers of color) all the works nonfiction writers are fighting about. If you are overwhelmed in an unfamiliar area or topic, find a guide. After a while, if I've been reading something good, I find myself itching to write my own stuff. What could have worked, but didn't ? I started by reading Dan Poynter's guide, by the godfather of self-publishing, then the Marilyn Ross guide. The more you read, the more hues of color you add to the pallet that you will use to define your voice. So I wrote it just like on TV, the walls were lined with stainless steel drawers. That means I can just use my imagination, right? And unlike in journalism, nobody gets to demand a correction. By way of example let us consider George Packer, a reporter for the New Yorker. The writer has Read other writers.