Metro Journeys in Writing Creatively

, by Ostrom, Hans; Bishop, Wendy; Haake, Katharine

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ISBN: 9780321011329 | 0321011325
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Copyright: 7/17/2000

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Metrois a unique multi-genre creative writing book that provides exercises and prompts to help readers move beyond terms and concepts to active writing.By using "guided writing," the authors help the reader through the creative processes in fiction, poetry, drama, and creative nonfiction. A mini-anthology with relevant exercises makes this sourcebook complete.For anyone interested in enhancing their creative writing skills.

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Introduction With Mainly Teachers in Mind

xix

Introduction With Mainly Students in Mind

xxiv

Prologue Concerning Writing Exercises and Ways to Approach Them

xxvii

PART I WRITING PROMPTS AND ACTIVITIES

(278)

Riding the Blue Line---Reading

(41)

Getting Started

(1)

Of Reading

(1)

Fitting Yourself into the Conversation of Writing You Love

(2)

Reading Yourself

(1)

And How About Your Reading Habits?

(1)

Your Own Canon

(2)

Reading Your Times: When You Came to Be

(1)

Reading Home: Organizing and Developing Memories

(2)

Correspondences: Imitation and Inspiration

(1)

Collecting Epigraphs for a Textual Mosaic

(1)

Writing Provocations: Responding to Other Writing

(5)

Eight Steps for Inhabiting and Transforming a Poem

(5)

Travels With the Essay

(3)

Reading and Writing Out of Other Art

(1)

History as a Collaboration of Fact and Imagination

(3)

Shadows, Doubles, and Others

(2)

Can You Name That Epiphany?

(3)

The Narrow Road to Mixing Genres

(1)

Reading Form as a Product of Perspective

(3)

Reading and Writing in the Workshop

(1)

Responding to, Evaluating, and Grading Alternative Style

(5)

Riding the Green Line---Invention

(74)

Getting Started

(1)

Dislodge the Icon of ``The Writer''

(4)

Narrative Anxiety Cure-All (Not Sold In Stores)

(3)

Coming to Our Overlooked Senses

(1)

Taste: Writing About Food and Family

(5)

Sounds and Smells

(1)

Places and Things

(1)

The Familiar Place As Frontier: Seeing the Rare in the Ordinary

(1)

Beginning With Nostalgia: Lost Childhood Places

(2)

Places, Memories, and Desires

(2)

The Text(ure) of Public Places

(2)

Writing About or With Objects

(3)

Writing from Expertise, Not Just from Experience

(3)

Language and Form

(1)

The Power of Names

(3)

Writing from Your Name: An Introductory Poem (an Acrostic)

(4)

First Words of Stories: This Sentence, These Words

(5)

The Perfect Grammar of Form: Finding Your Own Ideal Form

(3)

Nonsense and Sound Poems: Demystifying Formal Verse

(2)

Burrowing: Writing That Springs from Language Itself

(2)

There's Something About a Sonnet: Easing Into a 10 x 14 Poem

(4)

Piecemeal Fictions

(2)

Comparison vs. Contiguity: Using Metaphor and Metonymy

(2)

Working with Metaphor

(1)

Premises, Assumptions, Hypothetical Situations

(1)

Y in X-land: Dropping Characters into Places They Don't Belong

(1)

Under What Circumstances Would Someone ... ?

(1)

Against the Grain: Ignoring Conventional Wisdom

100

(2)

Against the Grain, Part Two

102

(2)

The Nonexistent Relative: Viewing ``Facts'' as Malleable

104

(1)

Ambiguity Is Certainly Useful

104

(2)

Drama = Conflict = Power

106

(3)

Story Spinning: 51 Prompts for Story Ideas

109

(2)

Memory

111

(1)

Listing and Memory

111

(2)

The Most Important Spectator in Your Writing Life---You

113

(2)

How New Writing Grows Out of Old

115

(3)

Riding the Orange Line---Development and Improvisation

118

(47)

Time

118

(1)

Playing With Time: Some Basic Moves

118

(3)

Telling Time 1: Order

121

(2)

Telling Time 2: Frequency

123

(1)

Telling Time 3: Duration

124

(4)

Telling Time: Down and Dirty

128

(1)

Developing Characters, Points of View, and Other Elements

129

(1)

Character Witness: 20 Questions

129

(4)

Building Character

133

(2)

Pardon Me, Your Nemesis Is Showing

135

(2)

Turning the Lens: Framing Narrative Perspective

137

(2)

Narrative ``Voice'' and Listeners Within Stories

139

(2)

Using Delay As an Organizing Principle

141

(2)

Writing What Cannot Be Filmed

143

(2)

A Certain Conventional Element

145

(2)

Deconstructing and Reconstructing

147

(1)

Things Are One Way, Then They Are the Other

147

(3)

Fiction Backwards and Forwards: Interlocking Narratives, Prequels, and Sequels

150

(2)

When Losing Control Is About Finding It Again

152

(4)

More Work with Language Itself

156

(1)

The Fat Draft and the Memory Draft: When Energy Runs Out

156

(3)

Thinking Poetically to Develop and Improvise

159

(3)

Word-Surfing Safari: Playing with Language

162

(3)

Riding the Red Line---Revision and Editing

165

(29)

Strategies: Different Approaches to Revising and Editing

165

(1)

The Executive Summary: How to Respond to Workshop Criticism

165

(2)

The Voices of Revision: What to Do with Advice

167

(2)

Radical Revision: A Strategy of Risk

169

(2)

Sentence Sounds: Exploring the ``Conjunctive'' and ``Disjunctive''

171

(2)

Getting Unstuck: Slowing Down to Pay Attention

173

(4)

Quickness as Complementary to Complexity

177

(1)

Forms Within Formlessness: Seeing the Potential Shapes of a Poem

178

(3)

Old Faithfuls: Some Enduring Approaches to Revision

181

(1)

Tactics: Specific Tasks of Revision and Editing

182

(1)

The Arbitrary Reviser Looks at Fiction

182

(2)

Paper, Tape, Scissors: The Arbitrary Reviser Acquires Tools

184

(1)

Directed Revision and Editing: Variations on Arbitrary Revision

185

(2)

Writing Between the Lines: Revising as ``Adding To'' Not ``Taking Away''

187

(2)

``Blowing Up'' Your Poems: Large-Font Revision

189

(1)

Revising Openers in Prose Genres: Eight Options

190

(4)

Union Station---Alternative Guided-Writing Scenarios

194

(44)

Multiauthored Texts

194

(1)

Coauthoring---Some Whys and Wherefores

194

(6)

Dream Wandering: Writing with a Group

200

(2)

Public Poetry

202

(1)

Video Poem: Let Each Medium Teach the Other

203

(2)

Experimental Forms and Less Familiar Modes

205

(1)

Writing from Your Autobiography Box

205

(3)

Parodies---Pushing Imitation to the Edge

208

(4)

Palimpsest: Writing ``Over'' the Forbidden Story

212

(2)

The Possibility of Play and the Play of Possibilities: Trying Writing Games

214

(2)

Multimedia, Cross-Cultural Writing

216

(2)

The Virtual Hypertext Game

218

(3)

Fortuitous Textual Coincidences; or When Fragments Collide

221

(4)

What the Words Grow Out Of: Building Multidimensional Collages

225

(2)

Flooding Yourself: A Strategy to Gather, Freewrite, Assemble, Construct

227

(1)

Vantage Points on Language

228

(1)

The Center Holds: Weaving Multiple Discourses in a Single Text

228

(2)

Warp and Weft: More on Weaving

230

(2)

What Hands Make: Using ``Instructions'' as a Model for Other Writing

232

(2)

In the Same Breath: Rewriting as Part of the Conversation

234

(1)

Silence

235

(3)

Exact Fare---Guided Writing Related to Selected Matters of Grammar, Precision, Style, and Punctuation

238

(41)

Behold the Sentence

238

(1)

The Care and Feeding of Sentences

238

(3)

Sentence as Style

241

(4)

What's in a Sentence: The Possibilities Exposed by Breaking the Rules

245

(2)

Building-Block Stories: Practice Mixing Sentence Styles

247

(3)

Animal, Vegetable, Mineral? Writing Using Only Question Sentences

250

(2)

Dueling Banjoes: The Use of Parallelism

252

(1)

Sentence Economics

253

(3)

Grammar, Punctuation, and Creativity

256

(1)

Grammar-Check Your Favorite Author

256

(2)

This Adventitious Music: Exploring Grammar with Nonsense Writing

258

(1)

By All Devious Means (But With Grammatical Consistency)

259

(2)

The Problem (Okay, One Problem) With Punctuation

261

(4)

In Praise of Punctuation

265

(1)

Word-Choice in Particular, Language-Awareness in General

265

(1)

Words: Choice and Precision

265

(3)

Figures of Speech

268

(3)

The Opposites of Everything

271

(2)

Poetry Phobia Cure-All (Not Sold in Stores)

273

(2)

Scavenger Hunt

275

(4)

PART II MINI-ANTHOLOGY

279

(131)

``Learning to Write'' (poem)

281

(1)

Audre Lorde

``Elektra on Third Avenue'' (poem)

282

(1)

Marilyn Hacker

``Mourning the Dying American Female Names'' (poem)

283

(1)

Hunt Hawkins

``Harlem'' (poem)

284

(1)

Langston Hughes

#712 (``Because I could not stop for Death---'') (poem)

285

(1)

Emily Dickinson

``Ode on a Gregian Urn'' (poem)

286

(2)

John Keats

``Where We Live Now'' (poem)

288

(1)

Marilyn Chin

``(Untitled)'' (poem)

289

(1)

Peter Meinke

``Arte Poetica'' (poem)

290

(1)

Pablo Neruda

``The Art of Poetry'' translated from the Spanish by Robert Bly (poem)

291

(1)

Pablo Neruda

``Of Reading'' (poem)

292

(1)

Hans Ostrom

``Metaphors'' (poem)

293

(1)

Sylvia Plath

Anonymous, [Early English riddle] (poem)

294

(1)

``Drug Store'' (poem)

295

(1)

Karl Shapiro

excerpt from Black Mercury translated from the Swedish by Hans Ostrom (poem)

296

(1)

Marie Silkeberg

``The Children'' (poem)

297

(1)

William Carlos Williams

``Lines written a few miles above Tintern Abbey'' (poem)

298

(4)

William Wordsworth

``Musee des Beaux Arts'' (poem)

302

(1)

W. H. Auden

``Horoscope Imperatives: A `Found' Ghazal'' (poem)

303

(1)

Wendy Bishop

Anonymous, ``Go Down, Moses'' (song lyric)

304

(1)

Five Sonnets:

``My Mistress' Eyes Are Nothing Like the Sun''

305

(1)

William Shakespeare

``Design''

306

(1)

Robert Frost

``My Daughter Considers Her Body''

307

(1)

Floyd Skloot

``Sonnet''

308

(1)

Robert Pinsky

``The Windhover''

309

(1)

Gerard Manley Hopkins

``In Praise of the Humble Comma'' (essay)

310

(2)

Pico Iyer

``Meander'' (essay/creative nonfiction)

312

(2)

Mary Paumier Jones

``Primary Sources'' (essay)

314

(6)

Rick Moody

``Anomalies in Relief: Notes of a California Expatriate'' (essay)

320

(7)

Hans Ostrom

``Library Card'' (essay)

327

(7)

Richard Wright

``My Children Explain the Big Issues'' (essay)

334

(2)

Will Baker

``Consanguinity'' (essay/creative nonfiction)

336

(6)

Jill Carpenter

``Landscape and Dream'' (short story)

342

(4)

Nancy Krusoe

``A Questionnaire for Rudolph Gordon'' (short story)

346

(4)

Jack Matthews

``How To Tell a True War Story'' (short story)

350

(10)

Tim O'Brien

``Street Map'' and ``RE/Collection'' (memoir)

360

(7)

Sheila Ortiz-Taylor

``A Conversation With My Father'' (short story)

367

(4)

Grace Paley

``Paris in `73'' (short story)

371

(5)

Grant Cogswell

``Arrow Math'' (short story)

376

(15)

Katharine Haake

excerpt from ``Hamlet'' (drama)

391

(5)

William Shakespeare

``A Really Big Shoe'' (performance piece)

396

(14)

Diana Marre

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