Creative Writing Library


General Resources:

10 Most Common Workshop Fallacies

Fiction Check List

Poetry Check List

Writer's Link

Assignment for Writer's Link Report

Harmonious Confusion

Skittish Libations

Skunk's Elements of Style
(Classic guide to sentence style. Lots of practical tips. Helpful info.on s
entence concision and clarity.)

Banned for Life
(Amusing and very comprehensive collection of the hackneyed and the cliché.)



Fiction:

Formula Fiction

Raymond Carver's "Cathedral"

Some Questions for "Cathedral"

Tim O'Brien's "How To Tell a True War Story"

James Baldwin's "Sonny's Blues" (handout)

JCO's—Psychology and Suspense

Gabriel Garcia Márquez's "A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings"

Márquez's "The Handsomest Drowned Man In The World"

Márquez's "Eva is Inside Her Cat"

Márquez's "Eyes of a Blue Dog"

Questions for Márquez Stories

Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities

Examples of Style

Developing Characters

A Collection of Flash Fiction

Flash Fiction Guidelines


Poetry:

Why Yeats Can Make You a Better Kisser

New Media, Visual, and Concrete Poetry: A Presentation

Miscellaneous Poets for Discussion

Form and Poetry

White Trash Haiku

Laurie Anderson's "Langue D'Amour"

Spoken Word Movement (a student essay)

What makes a good poem?

Poetry Workshop Sheet





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