
From Where You Dream
The Process of Writing Fiction
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Robert Olen Butler
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author "shares his insights into-and passion for—the creation and experience of fiction with total openness" (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
Robert Olen Butler, author of Perfume River, A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain, and A Small Hotel, teaches graduate fiction at Florida State University—his version of literary boot camp. In From Where You Dream, Butler reimagines the process of writing as emotional rather than intellectual and tells writers how to achieve the dream space necessary for composing honest, inspired fiction. Proposing that fiction is the exploration of the human condition with yearning as its compass, Butler reinterprets the traditional tools of the craft using the dynamics of desire. Offering a direct view into the mind and craft of a literary master, From Where You Dream is an invaluable tool for the novice and experienced writer alike.
"Incisive and provocative, Butler's tutorials are a must for anyone even thinking about writing fiction, and readers, too, will benefit from his passionate exhortations." -Booklist
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Will I listen to the audio book again, probably soon? Will I be referring to those passages I marked in the paper version? Without a doubt. Sooner than my second listen to the audiobook. Speaking of listening to the audiobook, Robert Olen Butler does a very good job narrating his own book.
Plenty of nuggets for any fiction writer.
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The book also contains multiple short stories in their full form as well as transcripts of classroom discussions. While I wished for more straight discussions from the author direct to me, the change of pace mostly worked. Why? Because I bought into the core ideas of the book and so, I enjoyed the relevant explorations and exercises the book takes in the later chapters.
Either way, I think fictions writers need to hear Mr. Butler’s firm grasp of the elusive skill that creatives sometimes abandon or fail to cultivate. My mind changed early on in the reading. Quick aside: I wrote my first novel a few years ago and then switched to non-fiction for my next book. I’ve had a difficult time returning to fiction and now I know why. This book gave me the exact perspective that I needed to return to the source of all my most powerful creative impulses….that place where archetypal designs emerge in their raw forms, that place deep down from where you dream.
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