creative writing (higher education)

"This guide to writing imaginative fiction takes a completely novel approach and fully exploits the visual nature of fantasy through original drawings, maps, renderings, and exercises to create a spectacularly beautiful and inspiring object. Employing an accessible, example-rich approach, Wonderbook energizes and motivates while also providing practical, nuts-and-bolts information needed to improve as a writer. Aimed at aspiring and intermediate-level writers, Wonderbook includes helpful sidebars and essays from some of the biggest names in fantasy today, such as George R. R. Martin, Lev Grossman, Neil Gaiman, Michael Moorcock, Catherynne M. Valente, and Karen Joy Fowler, to name a few"--Provided by publisher.

Reveals the creative methods of literature's most transformative figures. Contains a mini biography of each author and how they focused solely on his or her writing process. Not a how-to book but instead details how the writers' methods came about from within the context of the lives they lived.

Author Ellen Gilchrist chronicles the experiences she had while teaching creative writing at the University of Arkansas and shares what she learned about life, teaching, and writing from her students.

Author and writing teacher Carol Bly culls ideas from philosophy, psychotherapy, social work, and neuroscience to free creative nonfiction writers and teachers from the bounds of writers' workshop culture, think individually, and examine their words critically to become better writers.

A collection of more than thirty essays by various authors which examine key elements of writing creative nonfiction.