The Glimmer Train Guide to Writing Fiction: Volume 1: Building Blocks

Burmeister-Brown, Susan; Swanson-Davies, Linda B.

ISBN 10: 1582974462 / ISBN 13: 9781582974460

Published by Writer's Digest Books (edition First Edition), 2006

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It's a preowned item in good condition and includes all the pages. It may have some general signs of wear and tear, such as markings, highlighting, slight damage to the cover, minimal wear to the binding, etc., but they will not affect the overall reading experience.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Glimmer Train Guide to Writing Fiction: Volume 1: Building Blocks
• Publisher: Writer's Digest Books (edition First Edition)
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1582974462
• ISBN 13: 9781582974460
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

Survey Our Literary Landscape From the Open Window of Glimmer Train

Many writing books offer instruction and inspiration, but never before has one pulled back the curtain and laid bare before you the joys, frustrations, struggles, and achievements of the literary life–as experienced by more than one hundred accomplished writers. In excerpts from interviews conducted over a sixteen-year period and preserved by the editors of the highly respected literary quarterly Glimmer Train Stories and its supplement Writers Ask, contemporary writers who rarely discuss their craft present you with eye-opening techniques, diverse perspectives, and genuine encouragement–the kind of wisdom earned only from years at the writing desk.

Julia Alvarez, Edwidge Danticat, Robert Olen Butler, Sandra Cisneros, Andre Dubus, Ernest Gaines, Jamaica Kincaid, Antonya Nelson, Tim O'Brien, Ann Patchett, Annie Proulx, Tobias Wolff

The voices of these authors and many others resonate from the pages–sometimes humorous, sometimes heartbreaking, but always illuminating. A thorough treatment of craft and accessibility to engaging authors make Building Blocks–the first volume in this exquisite new series–the perfect guidebook for your writing life.

About the Author

Susan Burmeister-Brown and her sister, Linda B. Swanson-Davies, are the editors of the literary short-fiction quarterly Glimmer Train Stories, the newsletter Writers Ask, and the story collections Mother Knows: 24 Tales of Motherhood and Where Love Is Found. They live in Portland, Oregon with their families.