Spinning a Yarn: Creative Writing for the Soul (C-ID ENGL 200)

by Brandy Wilds

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This text is designed to support an 8-week course that canvases different types of creative writing, giving students ample opportunity to develop their own literary voices.

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Publisher
Coalinga College
Subjects
Humanities
Licence
Mixed licences (each page states its own), as LibreTexts states it
Who can read
Teens profiles and older, judged from its title and subjects

Contents

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  1. Front Matter
  2. TitlePage
  3. InfoPage
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Licensing
  6. 1: First Chapter
  7. 1.1: Reading and Writing Connection
  8. 1.2: Literary Techniques
  9. 2: Review of Elements
  10. 2.1: Review of Elements
  11. 2.2: Your Voice
  12. 2.3: Exercises of the Elements
  13. 3: Short Stories
  14. 3.1: Why a short story?
  15. 3.2: Flannery O’Connor (1925 - 1964)
  16. 3.3: Ambrose Bierce (1842–circa 1914)
  17. 3.4: Eudora Alice Welty (1909 - 2001)
  18. 3.5: William Faulkner (1897 - 1962)
  19. 3.6: Ernest Hemingway (1899 - 1961)
  20. 3.7: Short Story Exercises
  21. 4: Nonfiction
  22. 4.1: Nonfiction
  23. 4.2: Nonfiction Exercises
  24. 5: Poetry
  25. 5.1: Poetry
  26. 5.2: William Carlos Williams (1883 - 1963)
  27. 5.3: Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)
  28. 5.4: e.e. cummings (1894 - 1962)
  29. 5.5: Langston Hughes (1902 - 1967)
  30. 5.6: Poetry Exercises
  31. 6: Drama
  32. 6.1: Drama
  33. 6.2: Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906)
  34. 6.2.1: A Doll's House
  35. 6.2.2: An Enemy of the People
  36. 6.3: Drama Exercises
  37. 7: Flash Fiction
  38. 7.1: Flash Fiction
  39. 7.2: Flash Fiction Exercises
  40. 8: Final Chapter
  41. 8.1: Children's Literature
  42. 8.2: Young Adult (YA) Literature
  43. 8.3: Sci-Fi
  44. 8.4: Fantasy
  45. 8.5: Horror
  46. 8.6: Humor
  47. 8.7: Graphic Novels
  48. 8.8: Romance
  49. 8.9: How to get published
  50. 9: Assignment and Project Ideas
  51. 9.1: More Practice
  52. 9.2: 30 Reading Response Activities
  53. 9.3: Potential Course Design
  54. 9.4: Final Exercises
  55. Back Matter
  56. Index
  57. Glossary
  58. Detailed Licensing
  59. Detailed Licensing