From where you dream : the process of writing fiction
"Janet Burroway, author of Writing Fiction, the classic text on creative writing ... introduces her edited transcripts of Butler's thought-provoking lectures. From Where You Dream reimagines the process of writing as emotional rather than intellectual and tells writers how to achieve the dreamspace necessary for composing honest, inspired fiction. Proposing fiction as the exploration of the human condition with yearning as its compass, Butler reinterprets the traditional tools of the craft using the dynamics of desire."--Publisher's website
Annotations (Provenance) 20th century
269 pages ; 22 cm
9780802117953, 9780802142573, 0802117953, 0802142575
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The Lectures : Boot Camp
The Zone
Yearning
Cinema of the Mind
A Writer Prepares. The Workshop : Reading, Lit Crit, and the Workshop
The Bad Story
The Anecdote Exercise
The Written Exercise. The Stories, Analyzed : "Flamenco" / Erich Sysak
"My Impossibles" / Brandy T. Wilson
"My Summer in Vulcan" / Rita Mae Reese
Appendix: "Open Arms" / Robert Olen Butler