Acetylene Torch Songs
eBook - ePub

Acetylene Torch Songs

Writing True Stories to Ignite the Soul

  1. 240 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Acetylene Torch Songs

Writing True Stories to Ignite the Soul

About this book

Silver Medal for the 2024 IPPY Award
Finalist for the 2024 Foreword INDIES Book Award in Reference
Finalist for the 2024 Foreword INDIES Book Award in Self-Help

At times writers—from the unpublished to jaded lifers—need a fire lit under them to pursue the complex work of self-exploration. Acetylene Torch Songs provides that spark for memoirists and essayists seeking mentor-based instruction and inspiration.

Drawing on twenty-five years of teaching and mentoring writers, Sue William Silverman stresses practice over theory. She encourages craftiness as well as craft and urges writers to embark on emotional quests in pursuit of their art. Acetylene Torch Songs uniquely illustrates how the writer’s imaginative spirit comes alive on the page through metaphor, literary masks, sensory memories, voice, obsessions, and more. This holistic approach to writing emphasizes how the creative process brings together the heart, mind, and senses to illuminate the human condition through language. Featuring a personal essay in each chapter, Silverman uses her own work to model a specific concept or approach, demonstrating how obsessions, secrets, and memories can burn on the page.

Through guided prompts, worksheets, checklists, publishing advice, personal essays, and strategies, Silverman encourages writers to find the confidence and courage to write stories that reach beyond the page through their intimacy, social engagement, and honesty.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Definitions
  6. Epigraph
  7. Contents
  8. List of Illustrations
  9. The Hammer Overture
  10. Part 1
  11. 1. “Body and Soul”
  12. 2. “Thanks for the Memory”
  13. 3. “Ghost Riders in the Sky”
  14. 4. “Behind the Mask”
  15. 5. “Voices inside My Head”e
  16. 6. “The Long and Winding Road”
  17. 7. “Come Together”
  18. Part 2
  19. 8. “Respect”
  20. 9. “You Don’t Own Me”
  21. 10. “Do You Want to Know a Secret?”
  22. 11. “Look through Any Window”
  23. Bonus Tracks
  24. Sue’s EZ Rules to Write By
  25. On Trifles
  26. AfterWord
  27. Acknowledgments
  28. Appendix 1
  29. Appendix 2
  30. Appendix 3
  31. Appendix 4
  32. Appendix 5
  33. Brief Notes on Chapter Titles
  34. Notes
  35. About Sue William Silverman
  36. Other Works by Sue William Silverman