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Jump Start: How to Write From Everyday Life

Jump Start: How to Write From Everyday Life


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About the Book

For years, Robert Wolf traveled around the Midwest and the South teaching small town folk, farmers, and homeless individuals to write about their lives through poems, essays and fiction. Through his own small publishing company, Free River Press, Wolf published these stories of the forgotten parts of America. In 1999, Oxford published an anthology of his students' works in a volume entitled American Mosaic: Poetry and Prose by Everyday Folk. Now, we have Jump Start--a concise guide that offers Wolf's writing techniques from his Free River Press workshops across the country. Rooted in the oral tradition, Wolf's methods include storytelling, visualization, spontaneous prose composition, and sketching. Useful for both the individual and groups as well as for beginning or practiced writers, his concrete techniques are flexible enough to be applied towards any form (poetry, composition, non-fiction, plays, etc.). With the inclusion of writing samples from past workshop participants, Wolf's main emphasis is that people from all walks of life, even with no previous background in writing, may produce meaningful and memorable work.

About the Author :
Robert Wolf is Executive Director of the Free River Press. He is a writer and teacher who has lived and worked in many regions of the country and now runs private seminars and workshops. He is the author of An American Mosaic: Poetry and Prose by Everyday Folk (OUP, 1999). He lives near Lansing, Iowa.

Review :
"Bob Wolf's approach to oral history is unique"--Studs Terkel (on American Mosaic) "Offers a great deal of useful information to aspiring writers....[There are] many valuable strategies in these pages."--Kliatt "Bob Wolf's approach to oral history is unique"--Studs Terkel (on American Mosaic) "Wolf shows that writing can be fun, noncompetitive, and mutually supportive.... [It] will make everyday readers of this book say not only, 'That's terrific,' but also, 'I could do that.'" --Peter Elbow, author of Writing With Power and Everyone Can Write "Jump Start does exactly what it promises: teaches how to write from everyday life."--The Bloomsbury Review


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780195140439
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
  • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
  • Height: 203 mm
  • No of Pages: 176
  • Spine Width: 10 mm
  • Weight: 277 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0195140435
  • Publisher Date: 20 Sep 2001
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: How to Write From Everyday Life
  • Width: 136 mm


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