Publishing of Book:The Art and Craft of Creative Writing

Thanks for visiting my blog for  the past four years. During that time, I’ve read and learned about the writing life, poetry, short fiction, and creative nonfiction. I have read many books, learned a great deal, and written a couple hundred craft essays. In January of this year, I decided to write a book based on what I have learned. And so from April until a couple of weeks ago, I wrote a how-to creative writing eBook. It is called “The Art and Craft of Creative Writing.” It is based on what I have learned. To purchase the book, visit http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00F4VOYRK

The book is more than 400 pages long and includes the following chapters chapters:

 Table of Content

• About the Author 3
• Introduction. 4
• THE WRITING LIFE. 7
• The Art and Craft of Writing. 8
• The Writing Life: Journal Writing. 16
• The Writing Life: Reading Like a Writer 19
• The Writing Life: Learning to Write Creatively. 24
• The Writing Life: Finding Inspiration to Write. 29
• Ten Myths about Writing. 33
• Writer’s Block. 36
• The Writing Life: Developing Your Writing Voice. 39
• Blogging as a Form of Creative Writing. 44
• The Writing Process. 49
• Writing the Opening. 54
• Writing the Ending. 57
• Revising Your Work. 60
• WRITING FREE VERSE POETRY.. 65
• Poetry: An Overview.. 66
• Free Verse Poetry: An Overview.. 74
• The Title of a Poem.. 80
• Finding Inspiration and a Subject for Your Poem.. 83
• Writing Free Verse: Stanza, Line, Syntax. 87
• Writing Free Verse: Word Choice. 93
• Writing Free Verse: Adding Sensory Details. 96
• Writing Free Verse: Using Figurative Language. 100
• Writing Free Verse: Adding Sound Effects. 104
• Writing Free Verse: Meter and Rhythm.. 108
• Writing the Prose Poem.. 113
• Learning to Write Free Verse Poetry. 116
• WRITING SHORT FICTION.. 123
• Writing Short Fiction: An Overview.. 124
• Writing Short Fiction: Creating the Setting. 130
• Writing Short Fiction: The Plot 134
• Writing Short Fiction: Character and Characterization. 139
• Writing Short Fiction: Dialogue. 144
• Writing Short Fiction: Point of View.. 148
• Writing Short Fiction: The Theme. 152
• Writing Short Fiction: Literary Techniques and Poetic Devices. 155
• Writing Short Fiction: Voice and Writing Style. 161
• Writing Short Fiction: Beginning and Ending. 166
• How to Write a Short Story. 170
• WRITING CREATIVE NONFICTION.. 176
• Writing Creative Nonfiction: An Overview.. 177
• The Ethics of Creative Nonfiction. 184
• Writing Creative Nonfiction: Using Humour in Your Writing. 189
• Writing Creative Nonfiction: The Personal Narrative Essay. 194
• Writing Creative Nonfiction: The Opinion Essay. 202
• Writing Creative Nonfiction: The Meditative Essay. 209
• Writing Creative Nonfiction: The Lyrical Essay. 215
• Writing Creative Nonfiction: The Segmented Essay. 219
• Writing Creative Nonfiction: The Literary Journalism Essay. 224
• The Literary Journalism Essay: On Popular Culture. 229
• Writing Creative Nonfiction: Narrative History. 237
• The Literary Journalism Essay: The Global Village. 243
• Writing Creative Nonfiction: The Profile/Biography Sketch. 248

For anyone who desires to embrace the writing life, write free verse poetry, write short fiction, write creative nonfiction, such as the personal essays, and more, this book is for you. It is filled with advice, tips, suggestions, how-to explanations, and more. You can buy it at Amazon for $7.00. To purchase the book, visit:  http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00F4VOYRK I will not be making any more posts to this blog. It is time for another project. Good luck in your writing endeavors. Dave Hood,B.A.