03005nam 2200613 450 991078621130332120230124134621.00-8195-7424-4(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(MiAaPQ)EBC29040014(Au-PeEL)EBL29040014(OCoLC)1295281509(EXLCZ)99267000000034592520230124d2005 uy 0engur|||||||nn|ntxtccrAbout writing seven essays, four letters, and five interviews /Samuel R. Delany1st ed.Middletown, Connecticut :Wesleyan University Press,[2005]©20051 online resource (433 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8195-6715-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 centuryInterviewsAuthors, American813.54Delany Samuel R.848439MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910786211303321About writing3780658UNINA