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Acetylene Torch Songs - Sue William Silverman

Acetylene Torch Songs

Writing True Stories to Ignite the Soul
Buch | Softcover
266 Seiten
2024
University of Nebraska Press (Verlag)
978-1-4962-3575-6 (ISBN)
CHF 33,15 inkl. MwSt
Acetylene Torch Songs is a guidebook for writers who want their honesty, social engagement, and intimacy to reach beyond the page and transform the lives of readers with searing, indelible, and unquenchable words. 
2024 IPPY Silver Medal Winner

At times writers—from the unpublished to jaded lifers—need a fire lit under them to pursue the complex work of self-exploration. Acetylene Torch Songs provides that spark for memoirists and essayists seeking mentor-based instruction and inspiration.

Drawing on twenty-five years of teaching and mentoring writers, Sue William Silverman stresses practice over theory. She encourages craftiness as well as craft and urges writers to embark on emotional quests in pursuit of their art. Acetylene Torch Songs uniquely illustrates how the writer’s imaginative spirit comes alive on the page through metaphor, literary masks, sensory memories, voice, obsessions, and more. This holistic approach to writing emphasizes how the creative process brings together the heart, mind, and senses to illuminate the human condition through language. Featuring a personal essay in each chapter, Silverman uses her own work to model a specific concept or approach, demonstrating how obsessions, secrets, and memories can burn on the page.

Through guided prompts, worksheets, checklists, publishing advice, personal essays, and strategies, Silverman encourages writers to find the confidence and courage to write stories that reach beyond the page through their intimacy, social engagement, and honesty.

Sue William Silverman is an award-winning memoirist, essayist, and poet of eight books, including Love Sick: One Woman’s Journey through Sexual Addiction (made into a Lifetime TV movie) and How to Survive Death and Other Inconveniences (Nebraska, 2020). She teaches in the MFA in Writing Program at Vermont College of Fine Arts.  

The Hammer Overture
Part 1. Lighting the Flame
1. “Body and Soul”: Writing Fiery, Holistic Prose
2. “Thanks for the Memory”: Bringing the Past to Life
3. “Ghost Riders in the Sky”: Writing What Haunts You
4. “Behind the Mask”: On Revealing the Sequined Self
5. “Voices inside My Head”: The Multitudinous Sounds of Voice
6. “The Long and Winding Road”: Some Thoughts on Narrative Structure
7. “Come Together”: Strategies to Craft an Essay Collection
Part 2. Feeling the Flame
8. “Respect”: Confessional Writing as Resistance
9. “You Don’t Own Me”: On Writing Controversial or Disturbing Literature
10. “Do You Want to Know a Secret?”: I Love Confessional Writing
11. “Look through Any Window”: Memoir with a View
Bonus Tracks
Sue’s EZ Rules to Write By
On Trifles: Things You Might Not Think to Write About
AfterWord
Acknowledgments
Appendix 1. Deconstructed Essay
Appendix 2. Additional Writing Prompts
Appendix 3. Strategies to Write a Query Letter
Appendix 4. Two Sample Book Proposals
Appendix 5. A List of Useful Websites
Brief Notes on Chapter Titles
Notes

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 3 figures, 5 appendixes
Verlagsort Lincoln
Sprache englisch
Maße 140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt Schulbuch / Wörterbuch Wörterbuch / Fremdsprachen
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaft
ISBN-10 1-4962-3575-4 / 1496235754
ISBN-13 978-1-4962-3575-6 / 9781496235756
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