Once upon a time in the twenty-first century : unexpected exercises in creative writing /
Once upon a time in the twenty-first century : unexpected exercises in creative writing /
edited by Robin Behn.
- Tuscaloosa : The University of Alabama Press, in association with George F. Thompson Publishing, 2020.
- 400 pages ; 23 cm.
Includes index.
I'll put a spell on you / Bake a cake in an earthquake: how-to guides and process descriptions / Guidebooks galore! Chart uncharted places / Postcard stories / Creative nonfiction / Tropes unlimited: genre fiction / Where Frankenstein meets Frodo, part one: creating a character for genre fiction by creating their facebook page / Where Frankenstein meets Frodo, part two: our hero's hundred-story hotel and other settings for your genre fiction character / What's your alibi? / Interviews: for groups large and small / Once upon a time in the twenty-first century: retelling fairy tales / "Is he for real?": character-based flash fiction, part one: defining a character through action and dialogue / "Is he for real?": character-based flash fiction, part two: defining a character through an unexpected setting / Collaboration with fly: learning from Lydia Davis / The relationship between truth and fiction / Little novels / It is by chance that we meet: writing a one-act play through collaboration / Quick found-language sonnets / Social network haiku / Rhymes real cool: studies in rap lyrics / Oral poetry: the physical landscape of your poetic voice / Collaborative Ghazal / Collaborative Abecedarian (for up to twenty-six writers) / The Triolet / Oh, ode! / Sestinas: six words, obsessed! / Nonce, not nonsense: poetry meets the future / Poetry from math: the fib and beyond / Pillow book lists: observing experience for creative nonfiction / A travel guide of the self / Expert expertise: the art of the unlikely, opinionated review / TNT prose: explodable, expandable text / Take it away: erasure / Ye olde language made new: "false" translation / Sounds into words, words into sounds / Starting from a song, part one: remixing a song in writing / Starting from a song, part two: under the (musical) influence / Balderdash for writers: new stories from an old box / Disaster city: a facebook-y adventure / Consequences: a parlor game of surprise narratives / Constraints, odd characters, and secret postcards: a fresh approach to character and context / Broken picture telephone: modernist poets meet the grade-school game of telephone / Magazine shuffle: from image to character, narrative, and third-person-limited point of view / Improv at the zombie diner: platform and dialogue / Comicpalooza: the art of the panel / Fast talkers and faster writers: speed transcription / Obsessions: seven ways / Grand theft writing: swiped beginnings / Crazy headlines and hyperlink chasing: finding and using a bizarre persona / Genetically-modified Franken-poems / The exploding poem: how to keep on writing / Nice hat. Thanks.: word-by-word poems / Translation mutation: using online plot generators and translators / Mad lib translations of Marquez / Pictures and words / The horse in motion: poems in response to photographs and paintings of motion / Book flip! Using found phrases / New takes on the news: obituaries, classifieds, and Dear Abby / Now with twenty billion readers: writing a Craigslist "missed connection" / From these old sayings to this fresh story: revamping cliche phrases and plots / Realism: tips from Tom Wolfe and Flannery O'Connor / World building: nonrealistic characters and a six-sentence story / Rage against the creative writing machine: Dada in the house / The Beats and scribbled secret notebooks: chosen words and automatic writing / "I'm with you in rockland": "Howl" and praise poems / A call to arms: rally the troops / Stealing tone: picking up where your favorite authors left off / A journal of particulars: become a zen master of your senses / When garlic has hips: food writing and personification / Pets of the Roman Empire, dinosaurs of today: avoiding the cute kitty cat when writing about animals / Perilous points of view: giant toads! Cockroaches! / When the wrecking ball falls in love: reviving an inanimate object / The fairest of them all: talking to objects for a reason / Time for rhyme / Love poems and refrains: better than "lemon ice" / Death poems: the tragic and the comic / Political poems: Big Brother is watching you! / Things that go bump in the night: reappropriating stock vampires, witches, zombies, and other creatures for a twenty-first century scare / Pia Simone Garber, A.B. Gorham, Megan Paonessa, and Betsy Seymour -- Pia Simone Garber, A.B. Gorham, Megan Paonessa, and Betsy Seymour -- Pia Simone Garber, A.B. Gorham, Megan Paonessa, and Betsy Seymour -- Zachary Doss, Meredith Noseworthy, and Bethany Startin -- Kenny Kruse -- Kristin Aardsma and Brian Oliu -- Kristin Aardsma and Brian Oliu -- Kristin Aardsma and Brian Oliu -- Jessie Bailey, Jesse Delong, A.B. Gorham, and Lisa Tallin -- Jenny Gropp and Stephen Hess -- Pia Simone Garber -- Katie Berger, Laura Kochman, and Brandi Wells -- Katie Berger, Laura Kochman, and Brandi Wells -- Stephen Hess -- Ashley Chambers, Annie Hartnett, and Christopher McCarter -- Jessie Bailey and Pia Simone Garber -- Alex Czaja, Romy Feder, and Stephen Thomas -- Molly Goldman, Kenny Kruse, and Sally Rodgers -- Chapin Gray and Kirk Pinho -- Christopher McCarter -- Curtis Rutherford -- Chapin Gray and Kirk Pinho -- Sally Rodgers -- Pia Simone Garber -- Leia Wilson -- Chapin Gray, Jenny Gropp, and Kirk Pinho -- Jenny Gropp and Emma Sovich -- Jenny Gropp and Emma Sovich -- Katie Berger and Pia Simone Garber -- Katie Berger and Pia Simone Garber -- Katie Berger and Pia Simone Garber -- Jenny Gropp and Kirsten Jorgenson -- Jenny Gropp and Kirsten Jorgenson -- Jenny Gropp -- Molly Goldman -- Tasha Coryell and Steve Reaugh -- Tasha Coryell and Steve Reaugh -- Jessie Delong and Megan Paonessa -- Rachel Adams, Jessie Bailey, and Kirsten Jorgenson -- Kit Emslie and Sarah Kelly -- Kirsten Jorgenson, Betsy Seymour, and Danilo Thomas -- Rachel Adams, Pia Simone Garber, Kirsten Jorgenson, and Betsy Seymour -- Rachel Adams, Pia Simone Garber, Kirsten Jorgenson, and Betsy Seymour -- Holly Burdorff, Luke Percy, and Maggie Smith -- Rachel Adams, Pia Simone Garber, Kirsten Jorgenson, and Betsy Seymour -- Chapin Gray, Brain Oliu, and Kirk Pinho -- Kristin Aardsma and Breanne LeJeune -- Chapin Gray, Brian Oliu, and Kirk Pinho -- Chapin Gray, Brian Oliu, and Kirk Pinho -- Chapin Gray and Breane LeJeune -- Chapin Gray and Breanne LeJeune -- Kristin Aardsma, Breanne LeJeune, and Brian Oliu -- Kristin Aardsma, Breanne LeJeune, and Brian Oliu -- Jenny Gropp, Laura Kochman, and Jill Smith -- Greg Houser and Emma Sovich -- Jenny Gropp -- Jenny Gropp, Laura Kochman, and Jill Smith -- Greg Houser, Jill Smith, and Jessica Trull -- Greg Houser, Jill Smith, and Jessica Trull -- Jesse Delong, Lisa Tallin, and Danilo Thomas -- Krystin Gollihue -- Jess E. Jelsma and Matt Jones -- Pia Simone Garber and Kirsten Jorgenson -- Stephen Hess and Curtis Rutherford -- Stephen Hess and Curtis Rutherford -- Curtis Rutherford -- Molly Goldman -- Jenny Gropp and Kirsten Jorgenson -- Jenny Gropp and Kirsten Jorgenson -- Kirk Pinho -- Jessie Bailey, Kesse Delong, A.B. Gorham, and Lisa Tallin -- Jessie Bailey, Jesse Delong, A.B. Gorham, and Lisa Tallin -- Theodora Ziolkowski -- Pia Simone Garber, Jenny Gropp, Leia Wilson, and Emma Sovich -- Pia Simone Garber and Curtis Rutherford -- Pia Simone Garber and Curtis Rutherford -- Pia Simone Garber and Curtis Rutherford -- Tasha Coryell, Freya Gibbon, Molly Goldman, Krystin Gollihue, Jess E. Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I. Genres and forms galore : Part II. Ye olde language lets loose : Part III. Slews of styles and subjects : The adult as villain / Objects and elements: set your imagination loose! / Weapons of voice: practicing long and short sentence styles / Exercises in style: the endless possibilities of language / The N+7 game: from "The Snow Man" to "The Soap Mandible" / Cramming it in: jamming narrative into a short space / "Licking a glacier can change your DNA": landscape in prose poetry and flash nonfiction / Zero to hero! A superhero of uncommon valor / World domination: planets, species, disasters / Demystifying the publishing process / Jelsma, Matt Jones, Meredith Noseworthy, Steve Reaugh, Sally Rodgers, and Bethany Startin -- Annie Hartnett -- Megan Paonessa and Danilo Thomas -- Jesse Delong, Lisa Tallin, and Danilo Thomas -- Jenny Gropp -- Jenny Gropp, Laura Kochman, and Jill Smith -- Katie Berger, Laura Kochman, and Brandi Wells -- Katie Berger, Laura Kochman, and Brandi Wells -- Megan Paonessa and Danilo Thomas -- Megan Paonessa and Danilo Thomas -- Rachel Adams, A.B. Gorham, and Lisa Tallin -- Contributors -- Literary sources.
""Once upon a Time in the Twenty-First Century" is an innovative, inspirational, and unique creative writing textbook/handbook that fills many educational needs and gaps. Designed to appeal to a wide range of readers and writers - from teenagers to young adults, from grade nine through college and beyond - this volume of exercises is of inestimable value to students and teachers in the traditional classroom, a growing number of homeschoolers, others who are served by "distance learning," those who are part of a writing club or group, and independent writers and learners of all ages. The book is based on years of hands-on experiences in the teaching of creative writing in public high schools and after-school writing clubs. The book begins with poet Robin Behn's introduction and is followed by three writing sections: Genres and Forms; Sources and Methods; and Style and Subject. In each section, Behn offers a brief introduction to how to get started and specific ways to develop one's writing, and each introduction is then followed by extensive exercises that draw on classic literature and popular culture, ranging from Flannery O'Connor and Tennessee Williams to Elizabeth Bishop and Gertrude Stein, from Thomas Wolf and Pablo Neruda to Salman Rushdie and Arlo Guthrie. As part of Behn's layered approach to learning, she integrates within the exercises apt examples of student writings that have emerged from actual use of the exercises in both the classroom and in writing groups. The book concludes with general advice and direction on how to get published"--
0817359427 9780817359423
2020000749
Authorship--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Creative writing--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
English language--Composition and exercises--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
English language--Rhetoric--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
PE1408 / .O534 2020
808.02
Includes index.
I'll put a spell on you / Bake a cake in an earthquake: how-to guides and process descriptions / Guidebooks galore! Chart uncharted places / Postcard stories / Creative nonfiction / Tropes unlimited: genre fiction / Where Frankenstein meets Frodo, part one: creating a character for genre fiction by creating their facebook page / Where Frankenstein meets Frodo, part two: our hero's hundred-story hotel and other settings for your genre fiction character / What's your alibi? / Interviews: for groups large and small / Once upon a time in the twenty-first century: retelling fairy tales / "Is he for real?": character-based flash fiction, part one: defining a character through action and dialogue / "Is he for real?": character-based flash fiction, part two: defining a character through an unexpected setting / Collaboration with fly: learning from Lydia Davis / The relationship between truth and fiction / Little novels / It is by chance that we meet: writing a one-act play through collaboration / Quick found-language sonnets / Social network haiku / Rhymes real cool: studies in rap lyrics / Oral poetry: the physical landscape of your poetic voice / Collaborative Ghazal / Collaborative Abecedarian (for up to twenty-six writers) / The Triolet / Oh, ode! / Sestinas: six words, obsessed! / Nonce, not nonsense: poetry meets the future / Poetry from math: the fib and beyond / Pillow book lists: observing experience for creative nonfiction / A travel guide of the self / Expert expertise: the art of the unlikely, opinionated review / TNT prose: explodable, expandable text / Take it away: erasure / Ye olde language made new: "false" translation / Sounds into words, words into sounds / Starting from a song, part one: remixing a song in writing / Starting from a song, part two: under the (musical) influence / Balderdash for writers: new stories from an old box / Disaster city: a facebook-y adventure / Consequences: a parlor game of surprise narratives / Constraints, odd characters, and secret postcards: a fresh approach to character and context / Broken picture telephone: modernist poets meet the grade-school game of telephone / Magazine shuffle: from image to character, narrative, and third-person-limited point of view / Improv at the zombie diner: platform and dialogue / Comicpalooza: the art of the panel / Fast talkers and faster writers: speed transcription / Obsessions: seven ways / Grand theft writing: swiped beginnings / Crazy headlines and hyperlink chasing: finding and using a bizarre persona / Genetically-modified Franken-poems / The exploding poem: how to keep on writing / Nice hat. Thanks.: word-by-word poems / Translation mutation: using online plot generators and translators / Mad lib translations of Marquez / Pictures and words / The horse in motion: poems in response to photographs and paintings of motion / Book flip! Using found phrases / New takes on the news: obituaries, classifieds, and Dear Abby / Now with twenty billion readers: writing a Craigslist "missed connection" / From these old sayings to this fresh story: revamping cliche phrases and plots / Realism: tips from Tom Wolfe and Flannery O'Connor / World building: nonrealistic characters and a six-sentence story / Rage against the creative writing machine: Dada in the house / The Beats and scribbled secret notebooks: chosen words and automatic writing / "I'm with you in rockland": "Howl" and praise poems / A call to arms: rally the troops / Stealing tone: picking up where your favorite authors left off / A journal of particulars: become a zen master of your senses / When garlic has hips: food writing and personification / Pets of the Roman Empire, dinosaurs of today: avoiding the cute kitty cat when writing about animals / Perilous points of view: giant toads! Cockroaches! / When the wrecking ball falls in love: reviving an inanimate object / The fairest of them all: talking to objects for a reason / Time for rhyme / Love poems and refrains: better than "lemon ice" / Death poems: the tragic and the comic / Political poems: Big Brother is watching you! / Things that go bump in the night: reappropriating stock vampires, witches, zombies, and other creatures for a twenty-first century scare / Pia Simone Garber, A.B. Gorham, Megan Paonessa, and Betsy Seymour -- Pia Simone Garber, A.B. Gorham, Megan Paonessa, and Betsy Seymour -- Pia Simone Garber, A.B. Gorham, Megan Paonessa, and Betsy Seymour -- Zachary Doss, Meredith Noseworthy, and Bethany Startin -- Kenny Kruse -- Kristin Aardsma and Brian Oliu -- Kristin Aardsma and Brian Oliu -- Kristin Aardsma and Brian Oliu -- Jessie Bailey, Jesse Delong, A.B. Gorham, and Lisa Tallin -- Jenny Gropp and Stephen Hess -- Pia Simone Garber -- Katie Berger, Laura Kochman, and Brandi Wells -- Katie Berger, Laura Kochman, and Brandi Wells -- Stephen Hess -- Ashley Chambers, Annie Hartnett, and Christopher McCarter -- Jessie Bailey and Pia Simone Garber -- Alex Czaja, Romy Feder, and Stephen Thomas -- Molly Goldman, Kenny Kruse, and Sally Rodgers -- Chapin Gray and Kirk Pinho -- Christopher McCarter -- Curtis Rutherford -- Chapin Gray and Kirk Pinho -- Sally Rodgers -- Pia Simone Garber -- Leia Wilson -- Chapin Gray, Jenny Gropp, and Kirk Pinho -- Jenny Gropp and Emma Sovich -- Jenny Gropp and Emma Sovich -- Katie Berger and Pia Simone Garber -- Katie Berger and Pia Simone Garber -- Katie Berger and Pia Simone Garber -- Jenny Gropp and Kirsten Jorgenson -- Jenny Gropp and Kirsten Jorgenson -- Jenny Gropp -- Molly Goldman -- Tasha Coryell and Steve Reaugh -- Tasha Coryell and Steve Reaugh -- Jessie Delong and Megan Paonessa -- Rachel Adams, Jessie Bailey, and Kirsten Jorgenson -- Kit Emslie and Sarah Kelly -- Kirsten Jorgenson, Betsy Seymour, and Danilo Thomas -- Rachel Adams, Pia Simone Garber, Kirsten Jorgenson, and Betsy Seymour -- Rachel Adams, Pia Simone Garber, Kirsten Jorgenson, and Betsy Seymour -- Holly Burdorff, Luke Percy, and Maggie Smith -- Rachel Adams, Pia Simone Garber, Kirsten Jorgenson, and Betsy Seymour -- Chapin Gray, Brain Oliu, and Kirk Pinho -- Kristin Aardsma and Breanne LeJeune -- Chapin Gray, Brian Oliu, and Kirk Pinho -- Chapin Gray, Brian Oliu, and Kirk Pinho -- Chapin Gray and Breane LeJeune -- Chapin Gray and Breanne LeJeune -- Kristin Aardsma, Breanne LeJeune, and Brian Oliu -- Kristin Aardsma, Breanne LeJeune, and Brian Oliu -- Jenny Gropp, Laura Kochman, and Jill Smith -- Greg Houser and Emma Sovich -- Jenny Gropp -- Jenny Gropp, Laura Kochman, and Jill Smith -- Greg Houser, Jill Smith, and Jessica Trull -- Greg Houser, Jill Smith, and Jessica Trull -- Jesse Delong, Lisa Tallin, and Danilo Thomas -- Krystin Gollihue -- Jess E. Jelsma and Matt Jones -- Pia Simone Garber and Kirsten Jorgenson -- Stephen Hess and Curtis Rutherford -- Stephen Hess and Curtis Rutherford -- Curtis Rutherford -- Molly Goldman -- Jenny Gropp and Kirsten Jorgenson -- Jenny Gropp and Kirsten Jorgenson -- Kirk Pinho -- Jessie Bailey, Kesse Delong, A.B. Gorham, and Lisa Tallin -- Jessie Bailey, Jesse Delong, A.B. Gorham, and Lisa Tallin -- Theodora Ziolkowski -- Pia Simone Garber, Jenny Gropp, Leia Wilson, and Emma Sovich -- Pia Simone Garber and Curtis Rutherford -- Pia Simone Garber and Curtis Rutherford -- Pia Simone Garber and Curtis Rutherford -- Tasha Coryell, Freya Gibbon, Molly Goldman, Krystin Gollihue, Jess E. Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I. Genres and forms galore : Part II. Ye olde language lets loose : Part III. Slews of styles and subjects : The adult as villain / Objects and elements: set your imagination loose! / Weapons of voice: practicing long and short sentence styles / Exercises in style: the endless possibilities of language / The N+7 game: from "The Snow Man" to "The Soap Mandible" / Cramming it in: jamming narrative into a short space / "Licking a glacier can change your DNA": landscape in prose poetry and flash nonfiction / Zero to hero! A superhero of uncommon valor / World domination: planets, species, disasters / Demystifying the publishing process / Jelsma, Matt Jones, Meredith Noseworthy, Steve Reaugh, Sally Rodgers, and Bethany Startin -- Annie Hartnett -- Megan Paonessa and Danilo Thomas -- Jesse Delong, Lisa Tallin, and Danilo Thomas -- Jenny Gropp -- Jenny Gropp, Laura Kochman, and Jill Smith -- Katie Berger, Laura Kochman, and Brandi Wells -- Katie Berger, Laura Kochman, and Brandi Wells -- Megan Paonessa and Danilo Thomas -- Megan Paonessa and Danilo Thomas -- Rachel Adams, A.B. Gorham, and Lisa Tallin -- Contributors -- Literary sources.
""Once upon a Time in the Twenty-First Century" is an innovative, inspirational, and unique creative writing textbook/handbook that fills many educational needs and gaps. Designed to appeal to a wide range of readers and writers - from teenagers to young adults, from grade nine through college and beyond - this volume of exercises is of inestimable value to students and teachers in the traditional classroom, a growing number of homeschoolers, others who are served by "distance learning," those who are part of a writing club or group, and independent writers and learners of all ages. The book is based on years of hands-on experiences in the teaching of creative writing in public high schools and after-school writing clubs. The book begins with poet Robin Behn's introduction and is followed by three writing sections: Genres and Forms; Sources and Methods; and Style and Subject. In each section, Behn offers a brief introduction to how to get started and specific ways to develop one's writing, and each introduction is then followed by extensive exercises that draw on classic literature and popular culture, ranging from Flannery O'Connor and Tennessee Williams to Elizabeth Bishop and Gertrude Stein, from Thomas Wolf and Pablo Neruda to Salman Rushdie and Arlo Guthrie. As part of Behn's layered approach to learning, she integrates within the exercises apt examples of student writings that have emerged from actual use of the exercises in both the classroom and in writing groups. The book concludes with general advice and direction on how to get published"--
0817359427 9780817359423
2020000749
Authorship--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Creative writing--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
English language--Composition and exercises--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
English language--Rhetoric--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
PE1408 / .O534 2020
808.02