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You can't make this stuff up : the complete guide to writing creative nonfiction--from memoir to literary journalism and everything in between
Record details
- ISBN: 0738215864 (ebk.)
- ISBN: 9780738215860 (ebk.)
- ISBN: 0738215546 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- ISBN: 9780738215549 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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Physical Description:
xviii, 270 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
print - Edition: 1st Da Capo Press ed.
- Publisher: Boston, MA : Da Capo Press/Lifelong Books, 2012.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-259) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | What is creative nonfiction? The birth of the godfather ; The definition debate ; The fastest-growing genre ; Truth or-- ; Truth and fact ; The creative nonfiction police ; Schedules ; The creative nonfiction pendulum : from personal to public ; The public or "big idea" ; Widening the pendulum's swing ; The creative nonfiction way of life ; Selecting subjects to write about ; The tribulations of the writer at work ; It's the story, stupid! ; And finally, a gentle reminder -- The writing and revising and writing and revising part : how to do it. How to read ; The building blocks ; The yellow (or highlighting) test ; A famous and memorable scene ; To highlight or not to highlight : that is the question ; Intimate details ; Inner point of view ; Reflection ; Recreation or "reconstruction"? ; The narrative line and the hook ; The story determines the research information-- the facts-- you gather and provide -- Framing : the second of structure (after scenes) ; Main point of focus ; First lede, real lead : a creative nonfiction experiment precipitated by Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald ; Now that I know everything I ever wanted to know about creative nonfiction, what happens next? ; A final word : read this book again. |
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| Subject: | Reportage literature Technique Creative nonfiction Authorship Exposition (Rhetoric) Creative writing Authorship |
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