دانلود کتاب Short-Form Creative Writing: A Writer’s Guide and Anthology

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Cover\nHalf Title\nSeries\nTitle\nCopyright\nContents\nFigures\nPreface\n Why write short?\n How we’ve organized each chapter\n Relevant readings\n Flash interviews\n Free dives\n Vignettes\n Exercises\n Prompts\n One-sentence workshops\n Getting started\nPart I An Introduction to Short-Form Creative Writing\n 1 A Long History of the Short Form\n Relevant readings\n Flash interview with Pía Barros\n Free dive\n Vignette: Urgency and the short form\n In the beginning\n A note on genre\n Flash fiction\n Prose poetry\n Flash nonfiction\n What is short-form writing?\n Two worlds collide\n Dissecting the dinosaur\n Conclusion: Stealing strategies\n Exercises\n Prompts\n One-sentence workshop\nPart II The Craft of Short-Form Creative Writing\n 2 Picture This\n Relevant readings\n Flash interview with Calvin Mills\n Free dive\n Vignette: If you hand me the right map\n Stare: Educate the eye\n Image as epiphany\n The stereoscopic image\n Not just scenery\n Conclusion: Moving images\n Exercises\n Prompts\n One-sentence workshop\n 3 Voice, Character, and Narrator\n Relevant readings\n Flash interview with Sarah Evans\n Free dive\n Vignette: Stephanie’s stamp collection\n Overview\n Hearing voices\n Dialogue basics\n Point of view\n First-person singular\n First-person plural\n Second person\n Third-person singular\n The unreliable narrator\n Authentic dialogue\n Asking questions\n Dialogue format\n Is “said” dead?\n Conventional versus unconventional format\n Multidimensional dialogue\n The psychological gesture\n The show/tell ratio\n Recognizing clichés and stereotypes\n Conclusion: What are your characters made of?\n Exercises\n Prompts\n One-sentence workshop\n 4 Moving through Time and Space\n Relevant readings\n Flash interview with Karen E. Bender\n Free dive\n Vignette: Tonight, at the Santee Drive-in Theatre\n The narrative dilemma\n Self-contained worlds\n The flexibility of time: A few illustrations\n The space-time continuum\n Endless possibilities\n Conclusion: Sneak in, slip out\n Exercises\n Prompts\n One-sentence workshop\n 5 The Microcosmic Sentence\n Relevant readings\n Flash interview with Justin Torres\n Free dive\n Vignette: Beginning and ending with a dot\n What is a sentence?\n All about relationships\n What is structure?\n A blueprint for thought\n What is syntax?\n A marriage of music and meaning\n What is style?\n Unity\n Variety\n Pattern\n Making short sentences\n Making long sentences\n Making fragments\n Conclusion: Make the sentence your own\n Exercises\n Prompts\n One-sentence workshop\n 6 How to Leap: Ah-ha Moments and Associative Logic\n Relevant readings\n Flash interview with Bryan Fry\n Free dive\n Vignette: West Coast girl goes South\n And, suddenly, I knew .....\n Context, text, and subtext\n Once upon a time\n The involuntary imagination\n The hidden parts of a story\n Entrances\n Exits\n Gestalt theory for flash\n Figurative language in a flash\n Synecdoche and metonymy\n Conclusion: Follow the path\n Exercises\n Prompts\n One-sentence workshop\n 7 Translucent Design\n Relevant readings\n Flash interview with Ada Limón\n Free dive\n Vignette: The jackalope\n The invisible workaday paragraph\n Charming snakes and snake charming\n The rule of threes\n Integrating sound patterns\n Integrating nonsound patterns\n Conclusion: Black bear against night sky\n Exercises\n Prompts\n One-sentence workshop\n 8 Beg, Borrow, and Steal\n Relevant readings\n Flash interview with Steve Coughlin\n Free dive\n Vignette: Terra incognita\n Be a hermit crab\n Forms to borrow, steal, and make your own\n ABC\n Advertisement\n Aphorism\n Autobiography/biography\n Character sketch\n Confession\n Collage\n Definition\n Dream\n Fable\n Fairytale/frame story\n Instructions\n Inventory/list\n Letter\n Vignette\n Conclusion: Extreme restriction and a note of caution\n 9 Finding the Funny\n Relevant readings\n Flash interview with Matthew Clarke\n Free dive\n Vignette: Dead frogs and rooftop dolphins\n The soul of wit\n Your funny bone\n Where to start?\n Comic treatments\n “What if”/“yes, and”\n Timing, context, structure\n The short form as trickster\n Surprise, surprise\n Conclusion: Where jokes come from\n Exercises\n Prompts\n One-sentence workshop\n 10 Misfit Pleasures\n Relevant readings\n Flash interview with Alex Carr Johnson\n Free dive\n Vignette: Talk to me (a Wunderkammer)\n A taxonomy of the strange\n Useful distortion\n Fragmentation and atomization\n Conclusion: The art of miniaturization\n Exercises\n Prompts\n One-sentence workshop\n 11 Not So Fast! Strategic Revision\n Relevant readings\n A flash conversation on revision\n Cut it down\n Ask for more\n Weigh each word\n Listen closely\n Test the limits\n Remember what’s critical\n Free dive\n Gaming the draft\n Building and shaping\n Begin with “what if?”\n Make friends with your doubts\n Exercise 1: Seeing the waterfall\n Exercise 2: Fact-check yourself\n Exercise 3: Get your hands dirty\n Exercise 4: The layers of revision\n Ten steps toward revision\n Exercise 5: Breaking and unbreaking lines of text\n Exercise 6: Exploding the text\n Exercise 7: Shaving with Occam’s Razor\n Conclusion: The Beautiful Lightning\nPart III Short-Form Creative Writing Anthology\n Cookie Monster on the Dole\n All This\n A Story Possibly Heard in Some Bar at Three in the Morning\n Be Drunken\n My Grading Scale for the Fall Semester, Composed Entirely of Samuel Beckett Quotes\n A\n B\n C\n D\n E\n F\n The Man Who Hated Us and Then Forgot\n One Long Sentence\n Thin Cities 5\n Grip\n The Cat\n Rules of Combat\n Boy at Night\n Letter to a Funeral Parlor\n For My Sister in the River\n Self-Portrait as a Chimera\n My Devils\n The Prose Poem as a Beautiful Animal\n Dust\n Time Travel\n Instruction, Final: To Brown Poets from Black Girl with Silver Leica\n A Thousand Perfect Strangers\n Dinner Party\n Poland\n Hill Street Blues\n Dumped: Seven Cautionary Tales\n Bob and Betty\n Gina and George\n Dana and David\n Linda and Liam\n Kim and Krishna\n Tom and Tilde\n Sean and Susan\n What You Are\n Memoir\n A Modern Fable\n 8 Meetings Nobody Scheduled\n Natalia\n La Jungla\n The Letter from Home\n The Quiet Machine\n Some Things about That Day\n Surplus History\n the invisible girl can be anything she wants when she doesn’t want to be invisible\n The Girl Who Likes Dogs\n The Dinosaur\n Gravity, Reduced\n On Miniatures\n Pleasant, healthy-appearing adult white female in no acute distress\n Dinosaur\n Short Lecture on Your Own Happiness\n Life Story\n go-go tarot\n Cannibals and Explorers\n An All-Purpose Product\n Consequence\n In Praise of Latin Night at the Queer Club\n Icelandic Hurricane\n The Box\n The Inventory from a Year Lived Sleeping with Bullets\n Immigrant Haibun\n Scheherazade.\n Small Meditations\n A Letter to Deb Clow\n Excerpt from “Four about Death”\nAuthor Bios\nAcknowledgments\nGenre Index\nIndex