![]() ![]() RSVP requested for this event so we can plan appropriately. She lives in Chicago and Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. But if you write in abstractions or judgments, you are writing an essay. Lawton Distinguished Professor Emerita at Florida State University. As a writer of fiction you are at constant pains not simply to say what you. Janet Burroway is the author of plays, poetry, children’s books, and eight novels, including The Buzzards, Raw Silk, Opening Nights, Cutting Stone, and Bridge of Sand. And bring your writer friends along, too! What’s your biggest stumbling block as a writer? We invite writers at all levels of practice to come ask Janet about whatever it is, or about any other writing question. ![]() It includes new topics and writing prompts, and the examples and quotations throughout the book feature a wide and diverse range of today’s best and best-known creators of both novels and short stories. Moving from freewriting to final revision, the book addresses “showing not telling,” characterization, dialogue, atmosphere, plot, imagery, and point of view. And now you can attend a mini-master class from the author herself, when Janet Burroway comes to Bookends & Beginnings to celebrate the publication of the new tenth edition and discuss what’s new and improved-as well as what’s old and reliable-in this edition. ![]() This book is a master class in creative writing that also calls on us to renew our love of storytelling and celebrate the skill of writing well. Janet Burroway’s best-selling classic Writing Fiction: A Guide to Narrative Craft is the most widely used creative writing text in America, and for more than three decades it has helped hundreds of thousands of students learn the craft. ![]()
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