LEADER 03005nam 2200613 450 001 9910786211303321 005 20230124134621.0 010 $a0-8195-7424-4 035 $a(CKB)2670000000345925 035 $a(EBL)1163711 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000871053 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11531932 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000871053 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10819707 035 $a(PQKB)10594744 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1163711 035 $a(OCoLC)859687880 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse27431 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1163711 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10695190 035 $a(OCoLC)854971449 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC29040014 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL29040014 035 $a(OCoLC)1295281509 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000345925 100 $a20230124d2005 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAbout writing $eseven essays, four letters, and five interviews /$fSamuel R. Delany 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aMiddletown, Connecticut :$cWesleyan University Press,$d[2005] 210 4$dİ2005 215 $a1 online resource (433 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8195-6715-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover; 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- 327 $aLetter 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 View 327 $aFirst PersonTrust Your Image; Write What You Know 330 $aEssential reading for the creative writer. 606 $aAuthors, American$y20th century$vInterviews 615 0$aAuthors, American 676 $a813.54 700 $aDelany$b Samuel R.$0848439 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910786211303321 996 $aAbout writing$93780658 997 $aUNINA