ON BOOKS YOU SHOULD OWN! Writing Fiction: A guide to narrative craft by Janet Burroway (that’s the sf public lib in the back. There was an old lady with humungous binocular-like glasses trying to be in the goddamn picture. She stood behind me in the corridor smiling at my computer and giggling and trying to hide behind the shelfs when i told her “lady, i can see you.” Then she raised her arms in severe disappointment that I had discovered her plan to ruin my photograph.) I’ve been using this book for six months now and it is INCREDIBLY helpful. Burroway has a magnificent way of pulling in the writer by providing practical writing techniques and concrete examples. Buy it. For real.  ABOUT THE AUTHOR: “JANET BURROWAY is the author of plays, poetry, essays, children’s books, and eight novels including The Buzzards, Raw Silk (runner up for the National Book Award), Opening Nights, Cutting Stone, and Bridge of Sand. Her publications include a collection of personal essays, “Embalming Mom,” in addition to a volume of poetry, Material Goods, and two children’s books in verse, The Truck on the Track and The Giant Jam Sandwich . Her most recent plays,Medea with Child (The Reva Shiner Award), Sweepstakes, Division of Property (Arts & Letters Award), and Parts of Speech, have received readings and productions in NewYork, London, San Francisco, Hollywood, Chicago, and various regional theatres. Her textbook Writing Fiction, now in its eighth edition, is the most widely used creative writing text in the United States. She is Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor Emerita at the Florida State University in Tallahassee.”

ON BOOKS YOU SHOULD OWN!

Writing Fiction: A guide to narrative craft by Janet Burroway

(that’s the sf public lib in the back. There was an old lady with humungous binocular-like glasses trying to be in the goddamn picture. She stood behind me in the corridor smiling at my computer and giggling and trying to hide behind the shelfs when i told her “lady, i can see you.” Then she raised her arms in severe disappointment that I had discovered her plan to ruin my photograph.)

I’ve been using this book for six months now and it is INCREDIBLY helpful. Burroway has a magnificent way of pulling in the writer by providing practical writing techniques and concrete examples. Buy it. For real. 

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

“JANET BURROWAY is the author of plays, poetry, essays, children’s books, and eight novels including The Buzzards, Raw Silk (runner up for the National Book Award), Opening Nights, Cutting Stone, and Bridge of Sand. Her publications include a collection of personal essays, “Embalming Mom,” in addition to a volume of poetry, Material Goods, and two children’s books in verse, The Truck on the Track and The Giant Jam Sandwich . Her most recent plays,Medea with Child (The Reva Shiner Award), Sweepstakes, Division of Property (Arts & Letters Award), and Parts of Speech, have received readings and productions in NewYork, London, San Francisco, Hollywood, Chicago, and various regional theatres. Her textbook Writing Fiction, now in its eighth edition, is the most widely used creative writing text in the United States. She is Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor Emerita at the Florida State University in Tallahassee.”

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