Developing narrative nonfiction writers at any stage of their career
Write Choices: Elements of Nonfiction Storytelling helps writers cultivate their nonfiction storytelling skills by exploring the universal decisions writers confront when crafting factual narratives. Rather than isolating various forms of narrative nonfiction into categories or genres, Sue Hertz focuses on examining the common choices all true storytellers encounter, whether they are writing memoir, literary journalism, personal essays, or travel stories. Write Choices also includes digital storytelling. No longer confined to paper, today′s narrative nonfiction writers must learn to write for electronic media, which may also demand photos, videos, and/or audio. Integrating not only her own insights and experience as a journalist, nonfiction book author, and writing instructor, but also those of other established nonfiction storytellers, both print and digital, Hertz aims to guide emerging writers through key decisions to tell the best story possible. Blending how-to instruction with illuminating examples and commentaries drawn from original interviews with master storytellers, Write Choices is a valuable resource for all nonfiction writers, from memoirists to essayists to literary journalists, at any stage of their career.
Tabella dei contenuti
Chapter 1: What’s the Big Idea?
Where Lurk Subjects?
What′s the question?
Chapter 2: What’s the Form?
Internal narratives
External narratives
Internal and external narratives
Short essay? Kindle Single? Full-fledged book?
Chapter 3: What’s the Content?
What do you know?
What do you need to know?
Where do you find content?
Chapter 4: What’s the Focus?
How do you find focus?
Where do you find focus?
When do you find focus?
Chapter 5: What’s Structure?
How do you find the structure?
What are some structure options?
Chapter 6: What are the Components?
What’s the opening?
What point of view will guide the story?
Who are the characters?
What is the setting?
Dialogue or direct quotes?
What is the ending?
Chapter 7: Pulling it all Together
What we talk about when we talk about a first draft?
What we talk about when we talk about revising
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