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A cutting-edge, heading-for-the-millennium guide to the craft of fiction writing, Rebel Yell is perfect for individual or classroom use.
Fast-paced and entertaining Rebel Yell, by Idaho Writer-in-Residence and acclaimed novelist Lance Olsen, begins with a concise but thorough presentation of compositional basics and quickly progresses to more sophisticated concerns, such as navigating the murky waters of the publishing industry, jump-starting your creative muse, and getting the most out of writing workshops. Whether you are sculpting a great hook, deciphering contract rights and wrongs, or coping with the challenges of a writer's life, hip and honest Rebel Yell can guide you to find your own best solutions.
Innovative writing exercises at the end of each chapter encourage writers of all abilities to stretch and flex their creative muscles, while supplemental reading lists guide those who want to push the power of their pens to the next level. Best of all, Rebel Yell features something entirely lacking in many texts -- more than 40 interviews with contemporary authors, editors, and publishers working in diverse media, providing significant insights into the multifaceted worlds of "them that's doin' it." Witty and informative, Rebel Yell is the definitive guide to writing fiction that will grab attention in a crowded literary world.
Featuring over 40 interviews: Kathy Acker • Mark Amerika • Michael Arnzen • Susannah Breslin • Tiffany Brown • Tim W. Brown • Kelly Cherry • Robert Coover • Samuel R. Delany • Paul Di Filippo • Trevor Dodge • Janice Eidus • Brian Evenson • Raymond Federman • J. R. Foley • Steven J. Frank • Bob Greene • Rob Hardin • Greg Herriges • Harold Jaffe • Lily James • Michael Joyce • Richard Kadrey • Thomas E. Kennedy • Jonathan Lethem • Carole Maso • Cris Mazza • Larry McCaffery • Ed McClanahan • David Memmott • Misha • Derek Pell • Chris Reed • Doug Rice • David Rogers • Jasmine Sailing • Steven Shaviro • David Shields • Lewis Shiner • Julia Solis • Staszek • Don Webb • Curtis White • Alan Wilde • Peter Wortsman
Table of contents:
- Breakout: The Challenges of Writing for the New Millennium
- Eat Your Elders: Read the Past to Write the Future
- Downsize This! The Corporatization of the Literary Market Place
- What Workshops and MFA Programs Do and Don't Do
- Garbage Disposal Imagination: Fuel the Creative Fire
- Rebel Without a Cause: Finding Ideas
- Rebel Without a Clause: Surviving Writer's Block
- Is It Ripe Yet? Cultivating and Developing Ideas
- Ready for Prime-Time: The Rebel's First Page
- What Comes After Page One? Strategies for Developing Your Story
- Ch-Ch-Changes: The Elements of a Story
- Genre Jive: Dabbling in Different Forms
- The Geography of Form: Choosing How to Tell Your Story
- Conurbation of the Mind: Setting as Character
- Desire of Mire: Making the Most of Your Flat and Round Characters
- Point of Glue: The Implications of Perspective in Your Story
- Time in Space: Summary, Scene, Dialogue, Flashback, Slo-Mo, Tense
- Power of the Pen: Flexing the Muscle of Language
- Heavy Muddle: Theme, Allegory, and Symbolism
- Avoid Annoyed: Mechanical Errors That Can Kill a Manuscript
- Re/Visionary: Techniques for Revision
- Packing Heat: Prepping Your Manuscript and Finding a Publisher
- In Space No One Can Hear You Scream: Coping with Rejection
- Contract Rights and Wrongs
- Read in the Face: Keeping Abreast of Writing and Publishing Trends
- Rebel Sell: A Quick Guide to Self-Promotion
Publication date: August, 1998
ISBN 1-878914-50-2
200 pages, oversize trade paperback
Free chapters!
- Breakout: The Challenges of Writing for the New Millennium
- Is It Ripe Yet? Cultivating and Developing Ideas
- Packing Heat: Prepping Your Manuscript and Finding a Publisher
You may order this book from Mark V. Ziesing.
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