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Huffington Post (blog) - Aug 28, 2010
Writing stories, in comparison, is a leisurely delight, a walk in the park. Even if you don't know where you're going with a story, you know the project ... Raggedy Ann Is Looking Good for an Old Broad
The Stir (blog) - Sep 3, 2010
Three years later the cartoonist started writing stories about her, books I decided to dive into with my daughter this weekend. I'm wishing we'd started ... The story behind the sisters' stories
Globe and Mail - Aug 20, 2010
Jensen began writing stories later on, when she and her husband decided to have children. Alice Munro was her favourite author and Jensen credited her as an ...

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Literature: A World of Writing Stories, Poems, Plays, and Essays

by: David L. Pike, Ana Acosta
i'm not a student or a reviewer but i enjoy literature and this book is delightful
easy to access and browse
explore and mull
it's a treasure which shall remain at arms length on my writing table for the forseeable future
ofcourse noone can forsee the future but on the other hand one can enjoy the moment
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Shaping the Story: A Step-by-Step Guide to Writing Short Fiction

by: Mark Baechtel
This book is solid and the most practical writing book for novice writers I've come across. It's better than most others because the excercises are not piecemeal units, but aim to build a story up. The theory is direct and to the point, and you'll want to combine with Burroways book and some editing book.
Its method is good, and scene by scene. For the beginner who, like me had read tons of theory but needed to get that story out it has helped.

The only problem with the method is that it seems to advise polishing your scenes rather than using them to explore your story.
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The Virgin's Promise: Writing Stories of Feminine Creative, Spiritual and Sexual Awakening

by: Kim Hudson, Foreword by Christopher Vogler
While everyone is keenly aware of the imbalance between the number of male vs. female focused movies, few screenwriters have known where to turn to find help composing plots enthralling enough to tip the scales. The Archetype of the Virgin is a clever one to chose, as it evokes innocence on the one extreme, and solid self-possession on the other, an arc author Kim Hudson deftly delineates in The Virgin's Promise.
~ Mary Trainor-Brigham, M.A. author of Deep Cinema
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Dramatica: A New Theory of Story

by: Melanie Anne Phillips, Chris Huntley
Although this book was written apparently for aspiring writers and is now given away for free on the internet as a way of promoting the authors' software, I looked at the book as a reader of literature, as a contribution to literary theory and narratology. In such a light the book is quite relevant. The authors take what can only be described as a highly aristotlean approach to literature. In particular, this book almost reads like the work of someone who has been immersed in the works of Richard McKeon for far too long, with its strange fetishism of the number 4 and all of its multiples.
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