Creative Writing Library
General Resources:
10 Most Common Workshop Fallacies
Writer's
Link
Assignment
for Writer's Link Report
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:
Some Questions for "Cathedral"
Tim O'Brien's "How To Tell a True War Story"
James Baldwin's "Sonny's Blues" (handout)
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"
Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities
Poetry:
Why Yeats Can Make You a Better Kisser
New Media, Visual, and Concrete Poetry: A Presentation
Miscellaneous Poets for Discussion
Laurie Anderson's "Langue D'Amour"
Spoken Word Movement (a student essay)
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