Free within ourselves
Subtitle: fiction lessons for Black authors
By: Jewell Parker Rhodes.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Main Street Books/Doubleday
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 342
Subjects: Blacks -- Authorship.; African Americans in literature.; African Americans -- Authorship.; Blacks in literature.; Fiction -- Authorship.; Fiction -- Technique.
Description: A writer's guide filled with practical guidance, essays, and journal exercises for the African-American writer including advice from E.Lynn Harris, Charles Johnson, and Yolanda Joe [that includes] a guide to all the elements necessary to crafting fiction: character development, point of view, plot, atmosphere, dialogue, diction, sentence variety, and revision. Writing techniques are taught using exercises, journaling, story examples, and analyses of famous writing fragments, as well as several complete stories (including those of James Baldwin, Zora Neale Hurston, and Edwidge Dandicat, among others.) [publisher web site].
Notes: "Reading list": p. [315]-318.