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Turning Life Into Fiction by Professor Robin Hemley (Paperback / softback, 2006)

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With lively style, good humor and insight, Robin Hemley helps you turn all that you experience into fresh and powerful fiction. By learning to reimagine,you'll focus on translating real-world people and events into characters and scenes that happen on paper for the first time. You'll think what if instead of what is in order to take control of your material and cut loose the inhibitions of real life. In these pages, you'll learn how to hone your observation skills and fill your journal with rich and vivid details. (Because, as Hemley writes, Life is in the details, and so is good fiction. ) You'll see how to decide which ideas to bring to fiction and which ones to let go. And you'll learn how to: find the right form - vel, short story, vignette, memoir - for the story you want to tell; use triggers to start your reader's imagination rolling; keep your fiction emotionally honest by making the right choices between the way it happened and what the story dictates (ask Is it believable?, t Did it happen? ); create composites of real people and places that fit the unique needs of your story and empower your imagination; focus your fiction. Make sure everything, every character counts - and eliminate people who sit at the end of the bar without a role to play ; fictionalize - ethically and legally - other people's stories. Learn your rights as a writer versus their rights to privacy. (Can you use actual names? When do you need to get permission?). To illustrate how writers feed their fiction with reality, Hemley uses examples from his own work and from fiction masters of yesterday and today. At the end of each chapter, challenging exercises help you apply the basictheories and push them even further. An adventurous read, Turning Life Into Fiction will help you create fiction that's just as strange and wonderful and real as the life that inspires it.

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Graywolf Press
ISBN-10
1555974449
ISBN-13
9781555974442
eBay Product ID (ePID)
189566821

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Author
Professor Robin Hemley
Format
Trade Paperback (US) ,Unsewn / Adhesive Bound, Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Usage & Writing Guides

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Author Biography
Robin Hemley is the author of seven award-winning books of fiction and nonfiction. He is the director of the Nonfiction Writing Program at the University of Iowa.
Date of Publication
02/05/2006
Imprint
Graywolf Press
Country of Publication
United States

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