ENGL 2744 Chapter Ch. 1 pg. 1-14: Imaginative Writing 4th Edition pg. 1-14 outline
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Imaginative writing started learning to write as soon as you were born. Desires created fundamental form of story=i want. By the time you could speak you were putting together personal essays about what you had done and what had happened to you and fantasizing about the future. You are a literary sophisticate and have every right to write. Writing tends to call up unnecessary panic: fear is both normal and irrational. And writing all writing is imaginative translation of experience or thought into words. Often what is most original (imaginative) is what rings true impossible to tell the whole truth in words: b/c words are of a different form than experience. Writers learn a written incident is not necessarily credible b/c it really happened. Begin by writing whatever comes to you then figure out what you want to make of it. Need to read the greats : way that writers read .
