Narrative craft
By: Lucy Calkins and Alexandra Marron ; photography by Peter Cunningham
Contributors: Marron, Alexandra, author
Publisher: Firsthand, an imprint of Heinemann
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Portsmouth, NH
Language: eng
Number of pages: 189
ISBN-13: 9780325047409
Subjects: Composition and exercises; Narration (Rhetoric); English language; Study and teaching (Elementary)
Table of contents: title: Starting with turning points; title: Determining the dream of the story; title: Letting other authors' words awaken our own; title: Telling the story from inside it; title: Taking stock and setting goals; title: Flash drafting: putting our stories on the page; title: What's this story really about?: redrafting to bring out meaning; title: Bringing forth the story arc; title: Elaborating on important parts; title: Adding scenes from the past and future; title: Ending stories; title: Putting the final touches on our writing; title: Reading with a writer's eye; title: Taking writing to the workbench; title: Stretching out the tension; title: Catching the action or image that produced an emotion; title: Every character plays a role; title: Editing: the power of commas; title: Mechanics; title: Reading aloud our writing; title: Transferring learning: applying narrative writing skills across the curriculum.