A Writers Guide To Nonfiction

Author : Elizabeth Lyon
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0399528679
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Writer's Guide to Nonfiction written by Elizabeth Lyon and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2003-03-04 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A WRITER’S COMPASSDirection for your writing career Don’t get lost on the publishing path. Just forge ahead with the Writer’s Compass. Drawing on decades of professional experience as an author, editor, writing instructor, mentor, and marketing consultant, Elizabeth Lyon helps you navigate the art and craft of writing—with clear, easy-to-follow directions: NORTH Getting Your Bearings Understand your purpose and your audience; learn to refine your ideas, select effective titles, and find the best method of organization for any piece SOUTH Troubleshooting Use checklists and guidelines to spot weaknesses and problems in leads, organization, conclusions, and style—and find out how to correct them EAST Learning to Market Map a successful cover letter, query letter, or proposal, and discover a four-step process to facilitate publication and sales WEST Refining Your Vision Brainstorm to gain perspective on your writing—and how it fits with your values, goals, and dreams

Author : Eva Shaw
Publisher : Rodgers & Nelsen Publishing Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Writing the Nonfiction Book written by Eva Shaw and published by Rodgers & Nelsen Publishing Company. This book was released on 1999 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Methods outlined in this book are easy-to-follow steps for formatting, completing, and marketing a nonfiction book. The most popular subjects for nonfiction books are covered, along with writing instructions and painless tips for self-publishing. Included is information on finding an agent and book publisher.

Author : Mark Kramer
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1440628947
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Telling True Stories written by Mark Kramer and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-01-30 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interested in journalism and creative writing and want to write a book? Read inspiring stories and practical advice from America’s most respected journalists. The country’s most prominent journalists and nonfiction authors gather each year at Harvard’s Nieman Conference on Narrative Journalism. Telling True Stories presents their best advice—covering everything from finding a good topic, to structuring narrative stories, to writing and selling your first book. More than fifty well-known writers offer their most powerful tips, including: • Tom Wolfe on the emotional core of the story • Gay Talese on writing about private lives • Malcolm Gladwell on the limits of profiles • Nora Ephron on narrative writing and screenwriters • Alma Guillermoprieto on telling the story and telling the truth • Dozens of Pulitzer Prize–winning journalists from the Atlantic Monthly, New Yorker, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post and more . . . The essays contain important counsel for new and career journalists, as well as for freelance writers, radio producers, and memoirists. Packed with refreshingly candid and insightful recommendations, Telling True Stories will show anyone fascinated by the art of writing nonfiction how to bring people, scenes, and ideas to life on the page.

Author : Christina Boufis
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 110159828X
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Complete Idiot's Guide to Writing Nonfiction written by Christina Boufis and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get all the tools you need to craft compelling creative nonfiction prose. This helpful guide gives you everything you need to write real-life characters, compelling plots, natural dialogue, and captivating details.

Author : Dinty W. Moore
Publisher : Rose Metal Press
ISBN 13 : 0984616667
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing Flash Nonfiction written by Dinty W. Moore and published by Rose Metal Press. This book was released on 2012-09-12 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FEATURING ESSAYS FROM: Barrie Jean Borich • Jenny Boully • Norma Elia Cantú • Rigoberto González • Philip Graham • Carol Guess • Jeff Gundy • Robin Hemley • Barbara Hurd • Judith Kitchen •Eric LeMay • Dinah Lenney • Bret Lott • Patrick Madden• Lee Martin • Maggie McKnight • Brenda Miller •Kyle Minor • Aimee Nezhukumatathil • Anne Panning • Lia Purpura • Peggy Shumaker • Sue William Silverman • Jennifer Sinor • Ira Sukrungruang • Nicole Walker Unmatched in its focus on a concise and popular emerging genre, The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing Flash Nonfiction features 26 eminent writers, editors, and teachers offering expert analysis, focused exercises, and helpful examples of what make the brief essay form such a perfect medium for experimentation, insight, and illumination. With a comprehensive introduction to the genre and book by editor Dinty W. Moore, this guide is perfect for both the classroom and the individual writer’s desk—an essential handbook for anyone interested in the scintillating and succinct flash nonfiction form. How many words does it take to tell a compelling true story? The answer might surprise you.

Author : Sean Prentiss
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350067822
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Advanced Creative Nonfiction written by Sean Prentiss and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-07-29 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advanced Creative Nonfiction: A Writers' Guide and Anthology offers expert instruction on writing creative nonfiction in any form-including memoir, lyric essay, travel writing, and more-while taking an expansive approach to fit a rapidly evolving literary art form. From a history of creative nonfiction, related ethical concerns, and new approaches to revision and publishing, this book offers innovative strategies and ideas beyond what's traditionally covered. Advanced Creative Nonfiction: A Writers' Guide and Anthology also includes: · An anthology of contemporary creative nonfiction by some of today's most inventive and celebrated writers · Advanced explorations into the craft of creative nonfiction across forms · In-depth discussion of truth, ethics, and memory · Practical advice on revision, editing, research, and publishing · Writing prompts and exercises throughout the textbook A companion website is also available for the book at http://www.bloomsburyonlineresources.com/advanced-creative-nonfiction

Author : Stephen J. Pyne
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674054458
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Voice and Vision written by Stephen J. Pyne and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-05-15 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It has become commonplace these days to speak of “unpacking” texts. Voice and Vision is a book about packing that prose in the first place. While history is scholarship, it is also art—that is, literature. And while it has no need to emulate fiction, slump into memoir, or become self-referential text, its composition does need to be conscious and informed. Voice and Vision is for those who wish to understand the ways in which literary considerations can enhance nonfiction writing. At issue is not whether writing is scholarly or popular, narrative or analytical, but whether it is good. Fiction has guidebooks galore; journalism has shelves stocked with manuals; certain hybrids such as creative nonfiction and the new journalism have evolved standards, esthetics, and justifications for how to transfer the dominant modes of fiction to topics in nonfiction. But history and other serious or scholarly nonfiction have nothing comparable. Now this curious omission is addressed by Stephen Pyne as he analyzes and teaches the craft that undergirds whole realms of nonfiction and book-based academic disciplines. With eminent good sense concerning the unique problems posed by research-based writing and with a wealth of examples from accomplished writers, Pyne, an experienced and skilled writer himself, explores the many ways to understand what makes good nonfiction, and explains how to achieve it. His counsel and guidance will be invaluable to experts as well as novices in the art of writing serious and scholarly nonfiction.

Author : William Zinsser
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On Writing Well written by William Zinsser and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1988 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The revised and enlarged third edition of Zinsser's trusted writing guide covers the principles of good writing while including information on technical, business and sports writing, humor, interviews, working with a word processor, sexism, and a writer's attitudes toward language and craft.

Author : Jack Hart
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022673708X
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Storycraft, Second Edition written by Jack Hart and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2021-04-08 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jack Hart, master writing coach and former managing editor of the Oregonian, has guided several Pulitzer Prize–winning narratives to publication. Since its publication in 2011, his book Storycraft has become the definitive guide to crafting narrative nonfiction. This is the book to read to learn the art of storytelling as embodied in the work of writers such as David Grann, Mary Roach, Tracy Kidder, and John McPhee. In this new edition, Hart has expanded the book’s range to delve into podcasting and has incorporated new insights from recent research into storytelling and the brain. He has also added dozens of new examples that illustrate effective narrative nonfiction. This edition of Storycraft is also paired with Wordcraft, a new incarnation of Hart’s earlier book A Writer’s Coach, now also available from Chicago.

Author : Lary Bloom
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Writer Within written by Lary Bloom and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: