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Once Upon a Time in the Twenty-First Century : Unexpected Exercises in Creative Writing
Title
Once Upon a Time in the Twenty-First Century : Unexpected Exercises in Creative Writing / edited by Robin Behn.
ISBN
9780817392321
9780817359423
Publication
Tuscaloosa : The University of Alabama Press, [2021]
Manufacture
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2022
Copyright Notice Date
©[2021]
Physical Description
1 online resource (312 pages): illustrations
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
"In association with George F. Thompson Publishing" -- title page.
Includes index.
Description based on print version record.
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Summary
""Once upon a Time in the Twenty-First Century" is an innovative, inspirational, and unique creative writing textbook/handbook that fills many educational needs and gaps. Designed to appeal to a wide range of readers and writers - from teenagers to young adults, from grade nine through college and beyond - this volume of exercises is of inestimable value to students and teachers in the traditional classroom, a growing number of homeschoolers, others who are served by "distance learning," those who are part of a writing club or group, and independent writers and learners of all ages. The book is based on years of hands-on experiences in the teaching of creative writing in public high schools and after-school writing clubs. The book begins with poet Robin Behn's introduction and is followed by three writing sections: Genres and Forms; Sources and Methods; and Style and Subject. In each section, Behn offers a brief introduction to how to get started and specific ways to develop one's writing, and each introduction is then followed by extensive exercises that draw on classic literature and popular culture, ranging from Flannery O'Connor and Tennessee Williams to Elizabeth Bishop and Gertrude Stein, from Thomas Wolf and Pablo Neruda to Salman Rushdie and Arlo Guthrie. As part of Behn's layered approach to learning, she integrates within the exercises apt examples of student writings that have emerged from actual use of the exercises in both the classroom and in writing groups. The book concludes with general advice and direction on how to get published"-- Provided by publisher.
Variant and related titles
Project Muse books annual backfile collection 2022.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 17, 2023
Contents
Introduction
Part I. Genres and forms galore : I'll put a spell on you / Pia Simone Garber, A.B. Gorham, Megan Paonessa, and Betsy Seymour
Bake a cake in an earthquake: how-to guides and process descriptions / Pia Simone Garber, A.B. Gorham, Megan Paonessa, and Betsy Seymour
Guidebooks galore! Chart uncharted places / Pia Simone Garber, A.B. Gorham, Megan Paonessa, and Betsy Seymour
Postcard stories / Zachary Doss, Meredith Noseworthy, and Bethany Startin
Creative nonfiction / Kenny Kruse
Tropes unlimited: genre fiction / Kristin Aardsma and Brian Oliu
Where Frankenstein meets Frodo, part one: creating a character for genre fiction by creating their facebook page / Kristin Aardsma and Brian Oliu
Where Frankenstein meets Frodo, part two: our hero's hundred-story hotel and other settings for your genre fiction character / Kristin Aardsma and Brian Oliu
What's your alibi? / Jessie Bailey, Jesse Delong, A.B. Gorham, and Lisa Tallin
Interviews: for groups large and small / Jenny Gropp and Stephen Hess
Once upon a time in the twenty-first century: retelling fairy tales / Pia Simone Garber
"Is he for real?": character-based flash fiction, part one: defining a character through action and dialogue / Katie Berger, Laura Kochman, and Brandi Wells
"Is he for real?": character-based flash fiction, part two: defining a character through an unexpected setting / Katie Berger, Laura Kochman, and Brandi Wells
Collaboration with fly: learning from Lydia Davis / Stephen Hess
The relationship between truth and fiction / Ashley Chambers, Annie Hartnett, and Christopher McCarter
Little novels / Jessie Bailey and Pia Simone Garber
It is by chance that we meet: writing a one-act play through collaboration / Alex Czaja, Romy Feder, and Stephen Thomas
Quick found-language sonnets / Molly Goldman, Kenny Kruse, and Sally Rodgers
Social network haiku / Chapin Gray and Kirk Pinho
Rhymes real cool: studies in rap lyrics / Christopher McCarter
Oral poetry: the physical landscape of your poetic voice / Curtis Rutherford
Collaborative Ghazal / Chapin Gray and Kirk Pinho
Collaborative Abecedarian (for up to twenty-six writers) / Sally Rodgers
The Triolet / Pia Simone Garber
Oh, ode! / Leia Wilson
Sestinas: six words, obsessed! / Chapin Gray, Jenny Gropp, and Kirk Pinho
Nonce, not nonsense: poetry meets the future / Jenny Gropp and Emma Sovich
Poetry from math: the fib and beyond / Jenny Gropp and Emma Sovich
Pillow book lists: observing experience for creative nonfiction / Katie Berger and Pia Simone Garber
A travel guide of the self / Katie Berger and Pia Simone Garber
Expert expertise: the art of the unlikely, opinionated review / Katie Berger and Pia Simone Garber
Part II. Ye olde language lets loose : TNT prose: explodable, expandable text / Jenny Gropp and Kirsten Jorgenson
Take it away: erasure / Jenny Gropp and Kirsten Jorgenson
Ye olde language made new: "false" translation / Jenny Gropp
Sounds into words, words into sounds / Molly Goldman
Starting from a song, part one: remixing a song in writing / Tasha Coryell and Steve Reaugh
Starting from a song, part two: under the (musical) influence / Tasha Coryell and Steve Reaugh
Balderdash for writers: new stories from an old box / Jessie Delong and Megan Paonessa
Disaster city: a facebook-y adventure / Rachel Adams, Jessie Bailey, and Kirsten Jorgenson
Consequences: a parlor game of surprise narratives / Kit Emslie and Sarah Kelly
Constraints, odd characters, and secret postcards: a fresh approach to character and context / Kirsten Jorgenson, Betsy Seymour, and Danilo Thomas
Broken picture telephone: modernist poets meet the grade-school game of telephone / Rachel Adams, Pia Simone Garber, Kirsten Jorgenson, and Betsy Seymour
Magazine shuffle: from image to character, narrative, and third-person-limited point of view / Rachel Adams, Pia Simone Garber, Kirsten Jorgenson, and Betsy Seymour
Improv at the zombie diner: platform and dialogue / Holly Burdorff, Luke Percy, and Maggie Smith
Comicpalooza: the art of the panel / Rachel Adams, Pia Simone Garber, Kirsten Jorgenson, and Betsy Seymour
Fast talkers and faster writers: speed transcription / Chapin Gray, Brain Oliu, and Kirk Pinho
Obsessions: seven ways / Kristin Aardsma and Breanne LeJeune
Grand theft writing: swiped beginnings / Chapin Gray, Brian Oliu, and Kirk Pinho
Crazy headlines and hyperlink chasing: finding and using a bizarre persona / Chapin Gray, Brian Oliu, and Kirk Pinho
Genetically-modified Franken-poems / Chapin Gray and Breane LeJeune
The exploding poem: how to keep on writing / Chapin Gray and Breanne LeJeune
Nice hat. Thanks.: word-by-word poems / Kristin Aardsma, Breanne LeJeune, and Brian Oliu
Translation mutation: using online plot generators and translators / Kristin Aardsma, Breanne LeJeune, and Brian Oliu
Mad lib translations of Marquez / Jenny Gropp, Laura Kochman, and Jill Smith
Pictures and words / Greg Houser and Emma Sovich
The horse in motion: poems in response to photographs and paintings of motion / Jenny Gropp
Book flip! Using found phrases / Jenny Gropp, Laura Kochman, and Jill Smith
New takes on the news: obituaries, classifieds, and Dear Abby / Greg Houser, Jill Smith, and Jessica Trull
Now with twenty billion readers: writing a Craigslist "missed connection" / Greg Houser, Jill Smith, and Jessica Trull
From these old sayings to this fresh story: revamping cliche phrases and plots / Jesse Delong, Lisa Tallin, and Danilo Thomas
Part III. Slews of styles and subjects : Realism: tips from Tom Wolfe and Flannery O'Connor / Krystin Gollihue
World building: nonrealistic characters and a six-sentence story / Jess E. Jelsma and Matt Jones
Rage against the creative writing machine: Dada in the house / Pia Simone Garber and Kirsten Jorgenson
The Beats and scribbled secret notebooks: chosen words and automatic writing / Stephen Hess and Curtis Rutherford
"I'm with you in rockland": "Howl" and praise poems / Stephen Hess and Curtis Rutherford
A call to arms: rally the troops / Curtis Rutherford
Stealing tone: picking up where your favorite authors left off / Molly Goldman
A journal of particulars: become a zen master of your senses / Jenny Gropp and Kirsten Jorgenson
When garlic has hips: food writing and personification / Jenny Gropp and Kirsten Jorgenson
Pets of the Roman Empire, dinosaurs of today: avoiding the cute kitty cat when writing about animals / Kirk Pinho
Perilous points of view: giant toads! Cockroaches! / Jessie Bailey, Kesse Delong, A.B. Gorham, and Lisa Tallin
When the wrecking ball falls in love: reviving an inanimate object / Jessie Bailey, Jesse Delong, A.B. Gorham, and Lisa Tallin
The fairest of them all: talking to objects for a reason / Theodora Ziolkowski
Time for rhyme / Pia Simone Garber, Jenny Gropp, Leia Wilson, and Emma Sovich
Love poems and refrains: better than "lemon ice" / Pia Simone Garber and Curtis Rutherford
Death poems: the tragic and the comic / Pia Simone Garber and Curtis Rutherford
Political poems: Big Brother is watching you! / Pia Simone Garber and Curtis Rutherford
Things that go bump in the night: reappropriating stock vampires, witches, zombies, and other creatures for a twenty-first century scare / Tasha Coryell, Freya Gibbon, Molly Goldman, Krystin Gollihue, Jess E.
Jelsma, Matt Jones, Meredith Noseworthy, Steve Reaugh, Sally Rodgers, and Bethany Startin
The adult as villain / Annie Hartnett
Objects and elements: set your imagination loose! / Megan Paonessa and Danilo Thomas
Weapons of voice: practicing long and short sentence styles / Jesse Delong, Lisa Tallin, and Danilo Thomas
Exercises in style: the endless possibilities of language / Jenny Gropp
The N+7 game: from "The Snow Man" to "The Soap Mandible" / Jenny Gropp, Laura Kochman, and Jill Smith
Cramming it in: jamming narrative into a short space / Katie Berger, Laura Kochman, and Brandi Wells
"Licking a glacier can change your DNA": landscape in prose poetry and flash nonfiction / Katie Berger, Laura Kochman, and Brandi Wells
Zero to hero! A superhero of uncommon valor / Megan Paonessa and Danilo Thomas
World domination: planets, species, disasters / Megan Paonessa and Danilo Thomas
Demystifying the publishing process / Rachel Adams, A.B. Gorham, and Lisa Tallin
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