Writing About Nature: A Creative Guide, Revised Edition.Originally published by the Sierra Club in 1995, this handbook has already helped thousands of aspiring writers, scholars, and students share their experiences with nature and the outdoors. Using exercises and examples, John Murray covers genres, techniques, and publication issues. He uses examples from such masters as Barry Lopez, Annie Dillard, Larry McMurtry, Edward Abbey, Ernest Hemingway, and Henry David Thoreau. Also included are recommended readings, a directory of creative writing programs, professional organizations for writers, and a directory of environmental organizations. This revised edition includes a new chapter on nature writing and environmental activism. "Nature is our grandest and oldest home, older than language, grander than consciousness. John Murray knows that in his bones, and he shares his knowledge generously with anyone who opens this book. Whether you write about the earth for publication or only for deepening your perceptions, you will find keen-eyed guidance here." - Scott Russell Sanders, author of Staying Put |
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... lead a sort of Indian life among civilized men — an Indian life , I mean , as respect the absence of any sys- tematic effort for a livelihood . . . he seldom walks over a ploughed field without picking up an arrow - point , 4 Chapter One.
... walking through the annual Greenwich Village Halloween parade in the spring of 1985. Hoagland " is dressed like a fox " and he and Ehrlich " stop midavenue and howl . " They are treated to a spectacle of " undulating dragons , twenty ...
... Walk . " The advantage that Bass has in the journal format is that he has no need to artificially compress an expansive subject to fit a literary structure , but can follow the season at his leisure , noting changes as they occur day by ...
... Walk . " The latter two essays take a conventional Romantic form the excursion - and turn it upside down into a new ... Walking , " " Wild Apples , " and " Autumnal Tints " -Thoreau defined the genre as it now exists today . “ Walking ...
... Walking , ” a sort of half - tamed country between the rigid world of article - writing and the illusory realm of fiction ; the genre in a sense provides a perfect . metaphor for the " border life " that Thoreau said existed best mid ...
Contents
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Figurative Language | 73 |
Character and Dialogue | 87 |
StoryTelling | 95 |
Style | 105 |
Fiction and Poetry | 115 |
Revision | 129 |
Research | 137 |
Workshopping | 149 |
Environmental Activism | 171 |