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Peter Turchi

Peter Turchi has written and coedited several books on writing fiction, including Maps of the Imagination: The Writer as Cartographer; A Muse and a Maze: Writing as Puzzle; Mystery; and Magic, A Kite in the Wind: Fiction Writers on Their Craft. His stories have appeared in Ploughshares, Story, Alaska Quarterly Review, Puerto del Sol, and the Colorado Review, among other journals. He has received numerous accolades, including fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. He is a professor of creative writing at the University of Houston. His latest book is (Don’t) Stop Me if You’ve Heard This Before and Other Essays on Writing Fiction.

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  • (Don't) Stop Me if You've Heard This Before and Other Essays on Writing Fiction by Peter Turchi

    (Don't) Stop Me if You've Heard This Before and Other Essays on Writing Fiction

    In "(Don't) Stop Me If You've Heard This Before," Peter Turchi combines personal narrative and close reading of a wide range of stories and novels to reveal how writers create the fiction that matters to us. Building on his much-loved Maps of the Imagination: "The Writer as Cartographer," Turchi leads readers and writers to an understanding of how the intricate mechanics of storytelling--including shifts in characters' authority, the subtle manipulation of images, careful attention to point of view, the strategic release of information, and even digressing from the (apparent) story--can create powerful effects.


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