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Chargement... From Where You Dream: The Process of Writing Fictionpar Robert Olen Butler
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. The ideas and pointers included in this volume are excellent and worth the read. However, the format makes it a little disconcerting to follow and interpret because it is largely a set of transcripts from lectures. I would have found the book more useful had it been edited to be a real "writer's guide." ( ) The ideas and pointers included in this volume are excellent and worth the read. However, the format makes it a little disconcerting to follow and interpret because it is largely a set of transcripts from lectures. I would have found the book more useful had it been edited to be a real "writer's guide." Forget everything you think you know about writing. Throw all the information you’ve obtained in school about how to write. All of that is useless. Writing doesn’t come from your logical, thoughtful brain. It’s really out of your control and it’s only when you let go of that control that you can write.And, thus, my difficulty. I had very mixed feelings about this book. Parts were very helpful, e.g., Butler’s explanation of the dreamspace, his assertion that writers are sensualists, his insistence about the need to get out of one’s head. What he said about the unconscious being “scary as hell” and that of course it’s going to be hard to go there, and a constant struggle to go there despite the fear and the resistance—all of that was very comforting, since it’s nice to think there’s a good reason why writing is sometimes so incredibly hard. The lecture on film technique and fiction technique was also very helpful. On the other hand, I found his genre bias extremely off-putting and he makes some comments about children as characters toward the end that were completely ridiculous and misguided. The book is a valuable read for the good parts, but I think much of Butler’s advice should be taken with the proverbial grain of salt. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author "shares his insights into-and passion for-the creation and experience of fiction with total openness" (Publishers Weekly, starred review). 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 dream space necessary for composing honest, inspired fiction. Proposing that fiction is the exploration of the human condition with yearning as its compass, Butler reinterprets the traditional tools of the craft using the dynamics of desire. Offering a direct view into the mind and craft of a literary master, From Where You Dream is an invaluable tool for the novice and experienced writer alike. "Incisive and provocative, Butler's tutorials are a must for anyone even thinking about writing fiction, and readers, too, will benefit from his passionate exhortations."--Booklist Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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