From Where You Dream: The Process of writing fiction is a transcription and condensation of Robert Olen Butler's Masters class on writing. Put together and edited by Janet Burroway, it emphasizes dreamspace or unconscious writing as opposed to thinking or analytical writing in order to create a good or true work of art. It purports that yearning, or motivation, is the key point of craft missed by Estimated Reading Time: 40 secs. Robert Olen Butler is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of seventeen novels, including Hell, A Small Hotel, Perfume River, and the Christopher Marlowe Cobb series. He is also the author of six short story collections and a book on the creative process, From Where You Dream. He has twice won a National Magazine Award in Fiction and received the F. Scott Fitzgerald Award for Outstanding . · Like many handbooks on craft, Robert Olen Butler’s From Where You Dream includes analysis and examples, but the author layers his analysis with a study of how art and fiction craft connect—what he calls an “intuitive command of the essentials of the process of fictional art.” You could say Butler’s book is a study in anti-craft craft. In an introduction by Janet Burroway, whose own book Estimated Reading Time: 7 mins.
FROM WHERE YOU DREAM: The Process of Writing Fiction Robert Olen Butler, Author, Janet Burroway, Editor, edited and with an intro. by Janet Burroway. Grove $22 (p) ISBN Robert Olen Butler, author of Perfume River, A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain, and A Small Hotel, teaches graduate fiction at Florida State University—his version of literary boot camp. In From Where You Dream, Butler reimagines the process of writing as emotional rather than intellectual, and tells writers how to achieve the dreamspace. Robert Olen Butler, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, teaches graduate fiction at Florida State University -- his version of literary boot camp. In From Where You Dream, Butler reimagines the process of writing as emotional rather than intellectual, and tells writers how to achieve the dreamspace necessary for composing honest, inspired.
"From Where You Dream" reimagines the process of writing as emotional rather than intellectual, and tells writers how to achieve the dreamspace necessary for composing honest, inspired fiction. Proposing fiction as the exploration of the human condition with yearning as its compass, Butler reinterprets the traditional tools of the craft using the dynamics of desire. Butler offers invaluable insights into the nature of voice and shows how to experience fiction as a sensual, cinematic series. In From Where You Dream, Butler reimagines the process of writing as emotional rather than intellectual, and tells writers how to achieve the dreamspace necessary for composing honest, inspired. From where You Dream: The Process of Writing Fiction: Author: Robert Olen Butler: Editor: Janet Burroway: Edition: reprint: Publisher: Grove Press, ISBN: , Length.
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