Nonfiction by Meredith Sue Willis
Meredith Sue Willis's books about writing:
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Nonfiction Online by MSW:
Jump Start Your Novel on Laura Bentley's Open Mic
Guest blog on In This Light, writing about choosing an image for a book cover.
What I Learned In First Grade
Improve Your Fiction With Film Techniques
From Ten Strategies to Write Your Novel
"Seduced Into Consciousness: the Art of Jayne Anne Phillips"
Dialogue:The Spine of Fiction
Writing Dialogue
OnCutting
Lessons (a series for use in the classroom)
Luis, A True Story (A memoir of teaching)
On WIlliam Styron
Red Rover
Why Public Schools?
Book Reviews Online by MSW:
Michael Chitwood's The Weave Room
George Eliot's Felix Holt
Silas House's Clay's Quilt
David Huddle's Only the Little Bone
Gretchen Laskas's The Midwife's Tale
Myra Cohn Livingston's Like Grown-ups But Different
Alfred Maund's The Big Boxcar
André Schiffrin's The Business of Books
Weinberger et alia: The Cluetrain Manifesto
Don West's No Lonesome Road
Complete List of Nonfiction by MSW, Hard Copy and Online:
For a complete list of MSW's short nonfiction, including pieces appearing in hard copy only, see her resumé, especially anthologies and book introductions and for essays and articles.
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Click on the Book or here.Re-visions: Stories from Stories is a collection of spin-offs from myth, fiction, and the Bible. From a new look at Adam and Eve and why they left the Garden to a grown-up Topsy from Uncle Tom's Cabin to the confessions of SaintAugustine's concubine- each story offers a gloss on the original as well as insights into how we canlive today.
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