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From Where You Dream The Process of Writing Fiction

by Butler, Robert Olen; Burroway, Janet

ISBN13: 9780802142573
ISBN10: 0802142575
eBook ISBN(s): 9781555846190
Edition: Reprint
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 2006-01-09
Publisher: Grove Press

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Summary

Robert Olen Butler, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction for his short-story collection A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain, has been praised as "the best living American writer, period" (Fort Worth Star-Telegram). During his prestigious career, he has been guiding, inspiring, and awakening graduate fiction students at Florida State University-his version of literary boot camp. Now Janet Burroway, author of the classic text Writing Fiction, introduces her edited transcripts of his thought-provoking lectures.

Table of Contents

Introduction

1

(8)

PART I: THE LECTURES

Boot Camp

9

(14)

The Zone

23

(16)

Yearning

39

(24)

Cinema of the Mind

63

(22)

A Writer Prepares

85

(22)

PART II: THE WORKSHOP

Reading, Lit Crit, and the Workshop

107

(16)

The Bad Story

123

(18)

The Anecdote Exercise

141

(24)

The Written Exercise

165

(22)

PART III: THE STORIES, ANALYZED

``Flamenco''

187

(20)

Erich Sysak

``My Impossibles''

207

(22)

Brandy T. Wilson

``My Summer in Vulcan''

229

(24)

Rita Mae Reese

Appendix: ``Open Arms''

253

Robert Olen Butler

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