A Fiction Writer’s Guide to Peace

Crafting Nonviolent Heroism

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

AvGabriel Ertsgaard,USA) Ertsgaard, Dr Gabriel (Adjunct Lecturer, Kean University

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Superhero violence and graphic action sequences are prevalent on the screen and on the page, but this book takes an alternative route with practical guidance, frameworks, and tools for incorporating the principles of peacebuilding and nonviolence into compelling fiction. By mapping a path less travelled but just as vital in divisive times, Gabriel Ertsgaard shows writers how they can enact nonviolent heroism in their characters, model civil resistance in their stories, and create worlds around a mythos that champions redemptive nonviolence. With concepts applicable to writing for fiction, drama, the screen, and narrative poetry, A Fiction Writer's Guide to Peace deconstructs the necessity for violence in popular works, explores key concepts in peace studies, and helps writers establish their own peace poetics. Focused around the narrative craft techniques of character arcs, campaigns, duels, and worldbuilding, the book features numerous creative writing prompts and examples from key works. These include films such as Trading Places, Selma, Lage Raho Munna Bai, and Frozen and literature ranging from Shakespeare's plays to Dickens' A Christmas Carol to Julia Quinn's Bridgerton novels.A timely and important expansion to any writer's toolkit, A Fiction Writer's Guide to Peace allows storytellers to understand the complex dynamics of, and the damage caused by, violent perspectives and actions, giving them a way into considering nonviolence as powerful and preferable.

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Utgivningsdatum2025-06-26
Mått142 x 218 x 16 mm
Vikt340 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor184
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9781350473942

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Gabriel Ertsgaard is Interviews Editor for the Peace Chronicle and Copy Editor for the poetry journal Drifting Sands Haibun. He also serves on the board of directors for the Quaker magazine Western Friend. He has taught university English courses for the past decade, and is the author of numerous poems, short stories, and nonfiction articles. He holds a Doctor of Letters with a concentration in Global Studies from Drew University, USA.

ContentsAcknowledgementsChapter 1: IntroductionIs There Really an Imbalance?Is Nonviolent Action Effective?Are Stories of Nonviolent Heroism Compelling?What This Book IsChapter 2: From Peace Studies to Peace PoeticsPeace EducationCivil ResistanceCase Study: “For the Snake of Power”Conflict TransformationCase Study: “Big Rural”ConclusionChapter 3: Character ArcsEgri’s dialectical approachWriting exercise #1Power and LoveCase study: Trading PlacesWriting exercise #2Creating Character ArcsGetting to YesWriting exercise #3ConclusionChapter 4: CampaignsWhat is a caper story?Underdogs versus powerful figure/forceInitial situationWriting exercise #4SchemePreparationWriting exercise #5ExecutionWriting exercise #6AftermathWriting exercise #7ConclusionChapter 5: DuelsSubstitutionWriting exercise #8InterventionWriting exercise #9Victory through NonresistanceWriting exercise #10ConclusionChapter 6: WorldbuildingThe myth of redemptive violenceLoveWriting exercise #11PersuasionWriting exercise #12ReconciliationWriting exercise #13ConclusionChapter 7: Peace Poetics for ActivistsCreative LiteracyCounternarrativeFrameWorks and the bootstraps narrativeNarratology and narrative changeConclusionChapter 8: ConclusionFuture directions for peace poeticsAgainst purityFitting things togetherBibliographyIndex