03075nam 2200625Ia 450 991046304930332120200520144314.00-8195-7424-4(CKB)2670000000345925(EBL)1163711(SSID)ssj0000871053(PQKBManifestationID)11531932(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000871053(PQKBWorkID)10819707(PQKB)10594744(MiAaPQ)EBC1163711(OCoLC)859687880(MdBmJHUP)muse27431(Au-PeEL)EBL1163711(CaPaEBR)ebr10695190(OCoLC)854971449(EXLCZ)99267000000034592520050622d2005 uy 0engur|||||||nn|ntxtccrAbout writing[electronic resource] seven essays, four letters, and five interviews /Samuel R. DelanyMiddletown, CT Wesleyan University Pressc20051 online resource (433 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8195-6715-9 Cover; ABOUT WRITING: Seven Essays, Four Letters, and Five Interviews; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface and Acknowledgments; An Introduction: Emblems of Talent; Part I SEVEN ESSAYS; Teaching/Writing; Thickening the Plot; Characters; On Pure Storytelling; Of Doubts and Dreams; After Almost No Time at All the String on Which He Had Been Pulling and Pulling Came Apart into Two Separate Pieces So Quickly He Hardly Realized It Had Snapped, or: Reflections on "The Beach Fire"; Some Notes for the Intermediate and Advanced Creative Writing Student; Part II FOUR LETTERS; Letter to P-; Letter to Q-Letter to R-Letter to S-; Part III FIVE INTERVIEWS; A Paradoxa Interview: Experimental Writing/Texts & Questions; An American Literary History Interview: The Situation of American Writing Today; A Poetry Project Newsletter Interview: A Silent Interview; A Black Clock Interview; A Paradoxa Interview: Inside and Outside the Canon; Appendix: Nits, Nips, Tucks, and Tips; Name, Date, Place; Read Widely; Grammar and Parts of Speech; Sentences; Punctuating Dialogue; A Final Note on Dialogue; Apostrophes; Dramatic Structure; Excitement, Drama, Suspense, Surprise, Violence; Point of ViewFirst PersonTrust Your Image; Write What You KnowEssential reading for the creative writer.Authors, American20th centuryCorrespondenceAuthors, American20th centuryInterviewsAuthorshipScience fictionAuthorshipElectronic books.Authors, AmericanAuthors, AmericanAuthorship.Science fictionAuthorship.813/.54Delany Samuel R848439MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910463049303321About writing2475987UNINA