Winding Roads: Exercises in Writing Creative Nonfiction

Written by an award-winning author and Fulbright Scholar, Winding Roads: Exercises in Writing Creative Nonfiction, a new first edition, offers exciting and challenging exercises to help focus your creative nonfiction writing. The numerous exercises set simple tasks, enabling you to practice your technique and develop your existing skills. The author believes that the greatest question you will face as a writer is how you cast or shape your piece. Thus, the process of beginning with small pieces that allow you to progress to larger endeavors makes writing easier to manage and helps you learn to isolate each element of your piece. Active lessons with prompts will have you writing day after day.

Other titles written by Diane Thiel include Crossroads: Creative Writing in Four Genres and Open Roads: Exercises in Writing Poetry. You may purchase copies by going to http://www.mypearsonstore.com.

WHAT YOU’LL FIND IN THIS EDITION

• An extensive anthology of essays serves as models for your own writing.
• Text includes a very strong section on revision, helping you to consider alternative ways of shaping your essay.
• Numerous exercises address each element of writing creative nonfiction separately, helping you to understand all the elements included in creating an effective piece of writing.
• Various approaches to writing creative nonfiction are clearly examined, followed by extensive practice of each specific technique.

Visit us at www.ablongman.com

Written by an award-winning author Diane Thiel, Winding Roads: Exercises in Composing Creative Nonfiction offers exciting and challenging exercises with accompanying models which help focus student writing and allow instructors to address specfic elements of writing creative nonfiction. Vital examples in an extensive selection of readings serve as models and exercises address each element of writing creative nonfiction separately, while building towards an understanding of all the elements which go into creating an effective piece of writing.

Diane Thiel is the author of six books of poetry, nonfiction, and creative writing pedagogy: Echolocations (Nicholas Roerich Prize, 2000),

Writing Your Rhythm (2001), The White Horse: A Colombian Journey (2004), Resistance Fantasies (2004), Crossroads: Creative Writing Exercises in Four Genres (Longman, 2005) and Open Roads: Exercises in Writing Poetry (Longman, 2005). Her work appears in major journals including Poetry, The Hudson Review,The Sewanee Review, Best American Poetry 1999, among numerous others, and is reprinted in more than 30 major anthologies, including Twentieth Century American Poetry (McGraw Hill, 2004) and Contemporary American Poetry (Longman, 2005). Thiel received her BA and MFA from Brown University and has traveled and lived in various countries in Europe and South America. She has been a professor of creative writing for more than 15 years. A recipient of numerous awards including the Robert Frost and Robinson Jeffers Awards, and a recent Fulbright Scholar, she is on the creative writing faculty at the University of New Mexico.