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Viva Editions
April 2012
On Sale: April 17, 2012
256 pages
ISBN: 1936740125
EAN: 9781936740123
Kindle: B007KLZ7G4
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Non-Fiction
USE YOUR WORDS introduces the art of creative nonfiction to
women who want to give written expression to their lives as
mothers. Written by award-winning teacher and writer, Kate
Hopper, this book will help women find the heart of their
writing, learn to use motherhood as a lens through which to
write the world, and turn their motherhood stories into art.
Each chapter of USE YOUR WORDS focuses on an element of
craft and contains a lecture, a published essay, and writing
exercises that will serve as jumping-off points for the
readers’ own writing. Chapter topics include: the importance
of using concrete details, an overview of creative
nonfiction as a genre, character development, voice, humor,
tense and writing the “hard stuff,” reflection and
back-story, structure, revision, and publishing. The content
of each lecture is aligned with the essay/poem in that
chapter to help readers more easily grasp the elements of
craft being discussed. Together the chapters provide a
unique opportunity for mother writers to learn and grow as
writers. USE YOUR WORDS takes the approach that creative writing can
be taught, and this underscores each chapter. When students
learn to read like writers, to notice how a piece is put
together, and to question the choices a writer makes, they
begin to think like writers. When they learn to ground their
writing in concrete, sensory details and begin to understand
how to create believable characters and realistic dialogue,
their own writing improves. USE YOUR WORDS reflects Kate’s
style as a teacher, guiding the reader in a straightforward,
nurturing, and passionate voice. As one student noted in a
class evaluation: “Kate is a born writer and teacher, and
her enthusiasm for essays about motherhood and for teaching
the nuts and bolts of writing so that ordinary mothers have
the tools to write their stories is a gift to the world. She
is raising the value of motherhood in our society as she
helps mothers build their confidence and strengthen their
game as writers.”
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