Crafting Stories: A Guide to Creative Writing

· Broadview Press
Ebook
216
Pages
Eligible

About this ebook

Portable, accessible, affordable, and packed with engaging examples, Crafting Stories is a friendly introduction to writing short fiction. It encourages students to read fiction actively, with a writer’s eye, and to approach their own work in a spirit of adventure without sacrificing rigor. It makes the elements of story-craft more engaging to student readers, so that beginning writers can see greater progress reflected in their short stories over the course of a single semester.

About the author

Ethel Rackin Professor of Language and Literature at Bucks County Community College, has been teaching creative writing for over twenty years. She is the author of the poetry collections The Forever Notes (Parlor Press, 2013), Go On (Parlor Press, 2016), Evening (Furniture Press, 2017), and In Time (Word Works Books, 2025). Her writing has appeared in The American Poetry ReviewColorado ReviewKenyon ReviewNew England ReviewPoetry DailyPoetry EastVerse Daily, and many other journals.

Rate this ebook

Tell us what you think.

Reading information

Smartphones and tablets
Install the Google Play Books app for Android and iPad/iPhone. It syncs automatically with your account and allows you to read online or offline wherever you are.
Laptops and computers
You can listen to audiobooks purchased on Google Play using your computer's web browser.
eReaders and other devices
To read on e-ink devices like Kobo eReaders, you'll need to download a file and transfer it to your device. Follow the detailed Help Center instructions to transfer the files to supported eReaders.