Motivate your writing! /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Kelner, Stephen P.
Formato: Libro
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: Hanover, NH : University Press of New England, c2005.
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245 1 0 |a Motivate your writing! /  |c Stephen P. Kelner Jr. 
260 |a Hanover, NH :  |b University Press of New England,  |c c2005. 
300 |a xviii, 226 p. :  |b il. ;  |c 24 cm. 
504 |a Incluye referencias bibliográficas (p. 223-226). 
505 0 |a Introduction: Motivation and writing : so what? -- Part I. Motivation : why people do what they do: 1. What is motivation? ; Extrinsic motivation ; The motives -- 2. Identifying your own motives ; Motive imagery ; Practice scoring for motive imagery -- 3. The achievement-motivated writer ; Characteristics of achievement feedback ; Dealing with writer's block -- 4. The affiliation-motivated writer ; Characteristics of affiliative feedback ; Dealing with writer's block -- 5. The power-motivated writer ; Characteristics of power feedback ; Dealing with writer's block -- 6. The writer with multiple motives -- 7. Discovering motives using reality testing ; Motive-related behaviors ; Identifying your motives worksheet -- Part II. Motivation: why published writers do what they do: 8. Motives, readers, and writers ; Motives and reading matter ; The research ; But what about me? -- 9. Being overmotivated -- Part III. How writers see themselves: 10. Where writers are coming from ; Values (and motives) ; Self-image and social role: thinking about yourself as a writer ; The background of writers: where do they come from? -- 11. Assessing self-image ; Using the writer's self-image sort ; Fooling the watcher ; "Can I write on demand?" -- 12. The impostor syndrome: "Am I really a writer?" -- 13. Attribution theory ; It'll never be like this again -- 14. The problem-solving model inside a motivated thinker ; The problem-solving model in easy stages -- Part IV. Creativity: 15. Motivating your creativity -- 16. The seven deadly myths of creativity ; Heredity ; The muse ; Solitude ; Discipline ; Similarity/the "right" way ; Completeness ; Worthiness/belonging ; Forget the myths -- Part V. Goal setting: 17. Overview of goal setting ; Muddlin' through ; Direction and domain ; Rational goals -- 18. Goal issues: finding your balance point ; Different people need different goals ; "Challenging" and "realistic" depend on your perceptions ; The balance point changes based on external issues ; The balance point changes based on internal issues ; Give yourself flexibility in your goal setting ; Summary of a good goal ; Examples of things you can influence for goals -- Part VI. The process of writing : how it works; what you do: 19. Styles of the creative process ; Mozartian and Beethovenian -- 20. Steps in the writing process ; Generating ideas ; Identifying a topic ; Plotting ; Researching ; First-draft writing ; Editing ; Rewriting -- 21. Parts of the work ; Beginning, middle, and end ; The beginning ; Starting your flow ; Sitting down and warming up ; Getting to the beginning ; Jotting down ideas ; Freewriting ; Outlining ; Plotting ; The middle ; Natural breaks ; Rewriting ; Approaching the denouement ; The end ; The next one -- 22. Motivate your selling! ; Getting an agent ; Getting past rejection ; Changing strategies over time ; Self-confidence -- Part VII. Development : managing and changing yourself (and your writing): 23. Demotivators ; The environment in which you write ; Other people -- 24. Superstitions -- 25. Recharging your motives -- 26. Motivate your learning ; Basic principles of personal change -- 27. Workshops ; Benefits of the workshop ; Dangers of the workshop ; Small group research ; Things to watch ; Case study: the Cambridge science-fiction workshop ; A picture of a successful workshopper -- 28. When you are not writing -- 29. Support systems ; What is your network? ; A far from complete list of writer's organizations -- 30. Changing your motives ; Set your values ; Do your research ; Find your reinforcers ; Find your sources of feedback ; Find your potential obstacles ; Changing your motives: the actual process in detail -- 31. Last words ; Long-term results ; If all else fails -- Appendixes: Appendix A. Discovering your motives using the picture story exercise ; Appendix B. Case studies ; Appendix C. Sample development plans. 
650 0 |a Authorship. 
650 0 |a Authorship  |x Psychological aspects. 
650 7 |a Arte de escribir.  |2 UDESA 
650 7 |a Arte de escribir  |x Aspectos psicológicos.  |2 UDESA