Telling Stories
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Oates's chapter introductions and afterword on the writing workshop offer students encouragement, advice, and exercises for honing their skills.<br /><br />As a teacher, Oates emphasizes the importance of reading widely with enthusiasm, pleasure, and purpose. <em>Telling Stories</em> reflects this emphasis, introducing students to a variety of models for their own writing and encouraging them to concentrate on details, revise often, make material their own, experiment with genre, and ultimately find their own voice.<br /><br />Edited by a contemporary master of the storyteller's art "who defines herself primarily as a friend of the text and a friend of the writer," <em>Telling Stories</em> is the perfect anthology for creative writing workshops and fiction classes and a wellspring of inspiration for any beginning writer.<br /><br /><em>"The love of storytelling—to hear stories, and to tell them—is universal in our species. Those with an apparent talent for writing. . . are not of a special breed but simply mirror the common human desire. [If] you have a natural talent for writing, and a love of the imagination, you risk a lifelong deprivation if you fail to cultivate it as vigorously as you can. Write your own 'great American novel'. . . you're talented, you're intelligent, you have the driving passion, and you know as much as anyone about American life. Your story belongs uniquely to you."</em> —Joyce Carol Oates, <em>from the Introduction</em>
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