Jump Start: How to Write from Everyday Life
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For years, Robert Wolf traveled around the Midwest and the South teaching small town folk, farmers, and homeless individuals to write about their lives through poems, essays and fiction. Through his own small publishing company, Free River Press, Wolf published these stories of the forgotten parts of America. In 1999, Oxford published an anthology of his students' works in a volume entitled American Mosaic: Poetry and Prose by Everyday Folk.
Now, we have Jump Start--a concise guide that offers Wolf's writing techniques from his Free River Press workshops across the country. Rooted in the oral tradition, Wolf's methods include storytelling, visualization, spontaneous prose composition, and sketching. Useful for both the individual and groups as well as for beginning or practiced writers, his concrete techniques are flexible enough to be applied towards any form (poetry, composition, non-fiction, plays, etc.). With the inclusion of writing samples from past workshop participants, Wolf's main emphasis is that people from all walks of life, even with no previous background in writing, may produce meaningful and memorable work.
Now, we have Jump Start--a concise guide that offers Wolf's writing techniques from his Free River Press workshops across the country. Rooted in the oral tradition, Wolf's methods include storytelling, visualization, spontaneous prose composition, and sketching. Useful for both the individual and groups as well as for beginning or practiced writers, his concrete techniques are flexible enough to be applied towards any form (poetry, composition, non-fiction, plays, etc.). With the inclusion of writing samples from past workshop participants, Wolf's main emphasis is that people from all walks of life, even with no previous background in writing, may produce meaningful and memorable work.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0195140435
ISBN13:9780195140439
Release Date:September 2001
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Length:176 Pages
Weight:0.40 lbs.
Dimensions:0.4" x 5.4" x 8.0"
Customer Reviews
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Interesting author + process + exercises
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 21 years ago
The author Robert Wolf held writing workshops for homeless and then rural people in the U.S. These Free River Press workshops provided interesting samples used in this 150 page writing instruction book. I'm sure that now after his skin has hardened from getting neophytes to write so well, Mr. Wolf could perhaps repeat his great success at the college level.This book presents methods for writing creative non-fiction, particularly memoir. It targets group writing but I particularly liked it for my individual practice for writing essays. The exercises were new, and look useful and fun to try.I found lots of useful information in this book.John DunbarSugar Land, TX
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