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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> The Around the House section includes exercises that use as creative writing resources things processes and behaviors with which you are intimately familiar including your family chores and routines. The Down the Street section exploits your experiences with the outside world including work travel and romance. And the In the Gold Mine section gathers creative writing exercises that make use of abstract ideas fantasies dreams emotions lies promises play and pure speculation. All these exercises work equally well with poetry fiction or creative nonfiction (we use the terms creative nonfiction and essay interchangeably to mean prose writing that is significantly fact-based). The final section of the book Assaying: How Do You Know It’s Gold? provides some suggestions for how to evaluate what you’ve found in your digging in order to help you identify the work that might be worth further development and refinement. Each exercise in the middle three sections contains background and instructions for getting started on two different levels what we call “Panning Instructions” and “Excavating Instructions.” In many cases but not in all the “Excavating Instructions” ask you to go “deeper” into your material. For example in the “Getting Lost and Finding the Way exercise the “Panning Instructions” relate to getting actually and geographically lost while the “Excavating Instructions” ask you to explore situations where you couldn’t find. (LL)