Imaginative Writing: The Elements of Craft (Penguin Academics Series)
 

Imaginative Writing: The Elements of Craft (Penguin Academics Series) (Penguin Academics S.)

by Janet Burroway

Written by best-selling author Janet Burroway, Imaginative Writing is an introductory creative writing book that covers the four genres: essay, fiction, poetry, and drama,. Part I addresses the elements of craft (Image, Voice, Character, Setting, Story, and Development and Revision) while Part II explores the genres (Essay, Fiction, Poetry, and Drama). "Try This" Exercises appear throughout... (read more)

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This is a good text for yet another look at each of the forms of creative writing, though much of it was familiar. One essay, Margaret Atwood's "The Female Body," made my reading worthwhile.

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