MFA in a Box A Why to Write Book eBook John Rember
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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.”
About the Author
John Rember is the author of four books and numerous magazine and newspaper articles. He has been a professor of writing for many years, most recently as a core faculty member of the Pacific University MFA program. He is also Writer at Large at The College of Idaho. John lives in the Sawtooth Valley of central Idaho.
MFA in a Box A Why to Write Book eBook John Rember
It's no surprise to me that this book has excellent reviews--it's a great book. Not good, great. I have taught Creative Writing for over 20 years, using various texts appropriate to the age group, ending up with Burroway's Writing Fiction as my go-to for MFA students. But the thing is, this book is beyond Burroway. It is truly aimed toward the BRIGHT MFA students who've already read Burroway, or have such varied life experience they already know what they want to write. It has no time for nonsense. It cuts directly to the chase. No foundering through short story exercises when you're already writing a novel. This is the book for the serious student of writing. I have published 11 books, and I wish this had been around twenty years ago because I would have written much better books for having read it. It's also funny, and I think funny is always appreciated, and makes the writing student amenable to criticism. There are anecdotes about Ezra Pound and Hemingway and Steinbeck and Frost giving acceptance speeches for huge prizes, and the amazing thing is that 1. It's info I never knew and 2. They each come to the same conclusion, and Rember presents it in a concentrated form that really goes straight to the heart of WHY anyone wants to write a book. It's as if he is saying, "Climb up the steep hills and trudge through the muck for 3 years and you will emerge with an unpublished manuscript, a student loan the size of a mortgage, and you may have learned a lot, but you haven't learned this. So here it is, and guess what, you don't need to go into debt over $15. I have written it all down for you, and I am giving it to you." I plan to use this book next year when I have to teach my online MFA class. Burroway will still be my go-to for non-English majors in grad school, only because it gets them up to speed so quickly. Otherwise I will use this. I recommend every teach of fiction should buy this book and read it over and over.The downside? It has an uninspiring cover.
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MFA in a Box A Why to Write Book eBook John Rember Reviews
John Rember has done a fantastic job imparting his significant expertise on writing. It makes one wish he/she could sit in a classroom and hear Dr. Rember first-hand. MFA in a Box will do for those who do not have this opportunity.
After reading this inspirational Non-how-to-write-a book, I do!
Packed solid with observations and guidence, but not technology, this book was a joy to read. When I read the last page I was invigorated and found more joy in what I was currently working on. Who can forget the author's name, so easy to remember, Rember! Fun and factual.
The book is well written. It should be, as it is written by someone who teaches writing. If it wasn't, it wouldn't be much of a confirmation of his teaching. It's not about how, although it touches on that. It's about why, and that is more compelling. I thoroughly recommend it, especially to beginning writers.
Not your typical writing book, this excursion into the mind of a writer is more entertaining as a personal memoir than an instruction book. Still, there's a lot to unpack in this book. Well written, it's a spiritual exercise more than a practical manual. Sort of an armchair writers guide.
This book, suggested to me by a fellow writer, just may go down as one of my favorite books of this year. Filled with heartwarming and rich personal stories, MFA In A Box is not your typical book on writing, as the title may suggest to some readers . Its thought provoking chapters seek to inspire and ignite the passions lying within. It's one of those books to be read slowly, as to savor every sentence. Though each chapter end contains a list of bullet points for the reader to consider, the advice given isn't the typical 'How To', but more a suggestion to 'Think About This'. And you will. I found myself contemplating the meaning of every line. The stories, along with the way they are offered up as food for thought, are a brilliant approach to inspire the writer within. Each chapter moved this writer to put pen to paper, to think deeper, to search her soul. Even if one isn't a writer, the read would still be enjoyable. One particular chapter, about the author's relationship with a black man back in college during the 60's, still resonates with me.
I recommend this book to anyone looking for an inspirational read or who just enjoys writing at its best.
Late last night I settled into bed and finally opened "MFA in a Box" on my . I finished the introduction and the first two chapters. Though I read past midnight, I hated to switch off my e-reader and turn out the light. I've not been so entertained or so engaged about the why of writing since I'd read Carolyn See's "Making a Literary Life."
For starters, John Rember provides new perspectives on Anderson's Little Match Girl and the misogyny of Bob Dylan and Joyce Carol Oates. He introduces the concept of a fifth primary taste sensation, umami, the savory taste of protein, separate from the basic four we've always known (salty, sweet, sour and bitter). Then he slips in a phrase that's haunted me for the past six years after the successive deaths of my first husband, a longtime boyfriend and a second husband that some suspect that "everyone who ever loved you is dead." OMG,IMHO, he nails it!
With all this to think about, I wondered if I'd ever get to sleep. But I slipped off into a troubled dream where The Little Match Girl listens to Dylan rasping out "Positively 4th Street" as she freezes to death finger by finger, toe by toe. Rember says writers need to pay attention to irony and violence. I agree.
This book is so allusive, so sly, and so on point on both how and why we incorporate our every experience into what we write. I've flipped ahead to the index to discover with delight that Leave it To Beaver nestles against Leaves of Grass, and Shakespeare and Anne Nicole Smith can be found within hugging range.
I'll read chapters three and four tonight and anticipate more wondrously complicated dreams. And when I devote tomorrow to writing an essay about marriage, I'll remember to include the irony and violence.MFA in a Box A Why to Write Book
It's no surprise to me that this book has excellent reviews--it's a great book. Not good, great. I have taught Creative Writing for over 20 years, using various texts appropriate to the age group, ending up with Burroway's Writing Fiction as my go-to for MFA students. But the thing is, this book is beyond Burroway. It is truly aimed toward the BRIGHT MFA students who've already read Burroway, or have such varied life experience they already know what they want to write. It has no time for nonsense. It cuts directly to the chase. No foundering through short story exercises when you're already writing a novel. This is the book for the serious student of writing. I have published 11 books, and I wish this had been around twenty years ago because I would have written much better books for having read it. It's also funny, and I think funny is always appreciated, and makes the writing student amenable to criticism. There are anecdotes about Ezra Pound and Hemingway and Steinbeck and Frost giving acceptance speeches for huge prizes, and the amazing thing is that 1. It's info I never knew and 2. They each come to the same conclusion, and Rember presents it in a concentrated form that really goes straight to the heart of WHY anyone wants to write a book. It's as if he is saying, "Climb up the steep hills and trudge through the muck for 3 years and you will emerge with an unpublished manuscript, a student loan the size of a mortgage, and you may have learned a lot, but you haven't learned this. So here it is, and guess what, you don't need to go into debt over $15. I have written it all down for you, and I am giving it to you." I plan to use this book next year when I have to teach my online MFA class. Burroway will still be my go-to for non-English majors in grad school, only because it gets them up to speed so quickly. Otherwise I will use this. I recommend every teach of fiction should buy this book and read it over and over.
The downside? It has an uninspiring cover.
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