Book

Butler, Robert Olen.

From where you dream : the process of writing fiction / Robert Olen Butler ; edited, with an introduction by Janet Burroway

New York : Grove Press, ©2005.

269 pages ; 22 cm

"Janet Burroway, author of Writing Fiction, the classic text on creative writing ... introduces her edited transcripts of Butler's thought-provoking lectures. 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."--Publisher's website.

Fiction -- Authorship.

Burroway, Janet.

The Lectures : Boot Camp -- The Zone -- Yearning -- Cinema of the Mind -- A Writer Prepares.

The Workshop : Reading, Lit Crit, and the Workshop -- The Bad Story -- The Anecdote Exercise -- The Written Exercise.

The Stories, Analyzed : "Flamenco" / Erich Sysak -- "My Impossibles" / Brandy T. Wilson -- "My Summer in Vulcan" / Rita Mae Reese -- Appendix: "Open Arms" / Robert Olen Butler.

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