The Soul of Creative Writing
by Goodman, RichardEdition: 1st
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2009-03-15
Publisher(s): Routledge
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Summary
Language is a deep ocean of living words, as varied as undersea life. It is a gift inherited by each person when he or she is born. It is enormous, complex, and inexhaustible gift. The Soul of Creative Writing is a tribute to language and to its potentials. It explores the elements of style, rhythm, sound, meaning and the choice of the right word. Writers and readers will find it an indispensible source of inspiration and instruction. Book jacket.
Author Biography
Richard Goodman is the author of French Dirt: The Story of a Garden in the South of France. He has written for many national publications, including the New York Times, Creative Nonfiction, Harvard Review, and Commonweal. Goodman teaches writing at Spalding University's MFA in Writing Program in Louisville, Kentucky.
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgements | p. ix |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Words | |
| The Music of Prose | p. 7 |
| In Search of the Exact Word | p. 19 |
| The Secret Strength of Words | p. 29 |
| Some Things English Can't Do-and Shouldn't | p. 39 |
| The Nerve of Poetry | p. 49 |
| Writing | |
| Using the Techniques of Fiction to Make Your Creative Nonfiction Even More Creative | p. 63 |
| Finding a Great Title | p. 77 |
| The Eminent Domain of Punctuation | p. 87 |
| It's About Nothing: Finding Subjects for Creative Writing in Everyday Life | p. 99 |
| Maxims about Writing | p. 107 |
| Notes | p. 119 |
| Name Index | p. 125 |
| Title Index | p. 129 |
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