MFA in a Box
Description
As Rember notes in his introduction, "MFA in a Box is not a How to Write Book. It's a Why to Write Book." By exploring the relationships between the writer and love, grief, place, family, race and violence, Rember helps writers dive deep into their own writing. He tells them how they can breathe down there and how they can get back. "A big part of writing involves grappling with the terrors and discouragements that come when you have writing skills but can't project yourself or your work into the future," says Rember. "My hope is that MFA in a Box will help writers balance the despair of writing with the joy of writing. It's a book designed to help you to find the courage to put truth into words and to understand that writing is a life-and-death endeavor-but that nothing about a life-and-death endeavor keeps it from being laugh-out-loud funny."
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Introduction
Chapter 1: Writing Violence
Chapter 2: The Writer as Outsider
Chapter 3: Writing Shadows
Chapter 4: Writing Family
Chapter 5: Writing Place
Chapter 6: The Writer as Witness
Chapter 7: Writing Image
Chapter 8: Writing Depth
Chapter 9: Writing Mom
Chapter 10: Writing Grief
Epilogue: Writing Travel
