The Practice of Creative Writing: A Guide for Students - Softcover

Sellers, Heather

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0312436475 ISBN 13: 9780312436476

Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2007

Synopsis

The Practice of Creative Writing is designed for all students in the introductory course, including those who may never take another writing class. Its message is, simply put: you can do this, and it's worthwhile to try. Heather Sellers, who writes in multiple genres herself, has developed an approach that focuses on the habits and strategies that produce good writing in any genre. These habits and strategies make it possible for students to focus, to generate lots of writing, and to get to the good stuff -- the powerful imagery and the stories they really want to tell. She makes creative writing fun by providing opportunities to be playful and to experiment at the same time she teaches students the importance of discipline and craft.

About this title

About the Author

HEATHER SELLERS (Ph.D., Florida State University) is professor of English at Hope College in Michigan, where she teaches fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction. A recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship for Fiction and a Barnes and Noble New Discovery Writers Award, she has published widely in a variety of genres. Her books include Georgia Under Water, a collection of linked stories; Drinking Girls and Their Dresses: Poems; Page After Page, a memoir of the writing life; and Spike and Cubby's Ice Cream Island Adventure, a children's book.

Review

"[This text] is engaging, idiosyncratic, smartly-written, amusing, informative and dead-on."

-- John Walser, Marian College of Fond du Lac


"The tone and energy are fantastic, as is the continual implication that creative writing and student writing are important and vital. I also like the implication that students CAN do this. It's difficult and they must practice -- but they can do it if they work hard . . . ."

--Barbara Griest Devora, Northwest Vista College

Edition details

• Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0312436475
• ISBN 13: 9780312436476
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 412