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Keep It Real: Everything You Need to Know About Researching and Writing Creative Nonfiction

10 best books like Keep It Real: Everything You Need to Know About Researching and Writing Creative Nonfiction (Lee Gutkind): The Art of the Poetic Line, Page After Page: Discover the Confidence & Passion You Need to Start Writing & Keep Writing (No Matter What!), The Fourth Genre: Contemporary Writers Of/On Creative Nonfiction, Twentieth Century Pleasures: Prose on Poetry, Close Calls With Nonsense: Reading New Poetry, Writing Creative Nonfiction, Telling True Stories: A Nonfiction Writers' Guide from the Nieman Foundation at Harvard University, Writing for Story: Craft Secrets of Dramatic Nonfiction, Tell It Slant: Writing and Shaping Creative Nonfiction, Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction: Work from 1970 to the Present

The Art of the Poetic Line
AuthorJames Longenbach
ISBN1555974953
The Art Of series is a new line of books reinvigorating the practice of craft and criticism. Each book will be a brief, witty, and useful exploration of fiction, nonfiction, or poetry by a writer impassioned by a singular craft issue. The Art Of volumes will provide a series of sustained examinations...
Page After Page: Discover the Confidence & Passion You Need to Start Writing & Keep Writing (No Matter What!)
AuthorHeather Sellers
ISBN1582973121
You Are a Writer--Believe It!

False starts. Self-doubt. Mind games. They end the moment you pick up this book. With an inspiring mix of humor, wisdom, and creativity, Page After Page shows you how to find the courage and commitment to start writing and keep writing.

Author Heather...
The Fourth Genre: Contemporary Writers Of/On Creative Nonfiction
AuthorRobert L. Root Jr.
ISBN0321434846
This best-selling anthology is a comprehensive and indispensable introduction to the way creative nonfiction is written today. The Fourth Genre offers the most comprehensive, teachable, and current introduction available today to the cutting-edge, evolving genre of creative nonfiction. While...
Twentieth Century Pleasures: Prose on Poetry
AuthorRobert Hass
U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Hass considers some of the twentiethcentury poets who bring him pleasure: Robert Lowll, JamesWright, Tomas Transtromer, Joseph Brodsky, Yvor Winters,Robert Creeley, James McMichael, Czeslaw Milosz, and others,in this, his first collection of essays. Originally published...
Close Calls With Nonsense: Reading New Poetry
AuthorStephen Burt
ISBN1555975216
Essays and critical writings on contemporary poetry by Stephen Burt, "the finest critic of his generation" (Lucie Brock-Broido)

Stephen Burt's Close Calls with Nonsense provokes readers into the elliptical worlds of Rae Armantrout, Paul Muldoon, C. D. Wright, and other contemporary...
Writing Creative Nonfiction
AuthorCarolyn Forché
ISBN1884910505
Experience the power and the promise of working in today' most exciting literary form: Creative Nonfiction"Writing Creative Nonfiction" presents more than thirty essays examining every key element of the craft, from researching ideas and structuring the story, to reportage and personal reflection....
Telling True Stories: A Nonfiction Writers' Guide from the Nieman Foundation at Harvard University
AuthorMark Kramer
ISBN0452287553
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...
Writing for Story: Craft Secrets of Dramatic Nonfiction
AuthorJon Franklin
ISBN0452272955
The new "nonfiction"—the adaptation of storytelling techniques to journalistic articles in the manner of Truman Capote, Tom Wolfe, and John McPhee—is an innovative genre that has been awarded virtually every Pulitzer Prize for literary journalism since 1979. And now Jon Franklin, himself...
Tell It Slant: Writing and Shaping Creative Nonfiction
AuthorBrenda Miller
ISBN0072512784
This is a great book, and if you look for it, try for the earlier edition with the anthology in the back. The most recent edition took the essays out and that makes no sense. Why read about how to write creative nonfiction and not immediately have an example?

At this point I have read most of the book...
Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction: Work from 1970 to the Present
AuthorLex Williford
ISBN1416531742
From memoir to journalism, personal essays to cultural criticism - this unique, indispensable anthology brings together fifty unforgettable works from all genres of creative nonfiction. Selected by five hundred writers, English professors, and creative writing teachers from across the country,...
The Writer on Her Work
AuthorJanet Sternburg
ISBN0393320553
A collection of essays and talks (even an extended poem from Ursula Le Guin) by women on writing. It covers what, why and how they write and what the obstacles are. The contributions are variable in quality, but they are all worth reading. Contributors include Margaret Attwood, Joan Didion, Erica Jong,...
Inventing the Truth: The Art and Craft of Memoir
AuthorWilliam Zinsser
ISBN0395901502
An indispensable book by writers who have experienced firsthand the rewards and challenges of crafting a memoir

 

Anyone undertaking the project of writing a memoir knows that the events, memories, and emotions of the past often resist the orderly structure of a book. Inventing...
In Short: A Collection of Brief Creative Nonfiction
AuthorMary Paumier Jones
ISBN0393314928
Something is going on out there. Almost simultaneously, many of our finest writers are experimenting with a new nonfiction form: brief pieces that are literary and personal rather than informational, complete in themselves, and short—very short. Although the form has not had a name until now,...
Creative Nonfiction: Researching and Crafting Stories of Real Life
AuthorPhilip Gerard
Gerard covers everything from getting the assignment to conducting a stirring interview to working with an editor - including how to go "where the story lives" to experience the first-hand emotional facts - sights, smells, sounds - that will give your story immediacy; find the right form for the story...
Write. 10 Days to Overcome Writer's Block. Period.
AuthorKaren E. Peterson
ISBN1593375034
I bought this book back in 2009 and read it a little, but then got bored. So, this month, I decided to try again and started from the beginning. I'll admit, some things the author wrote were interesting, but the dominant hand/non-dominant hand exercises were overdone and pointless to me. I mean, I had the...
Damn! Why Didnt I Write That?: How Ordinary People are Raking in $100,000.00 or More Writing Nonfiction Books & How You Can Too!
AuthorMarc McCutcheon
ISBN1884956556
More nonfiction books are breaking the 100,000-copy sale barrier than ever before. Amateur writers, housewives, and even high school dropouts have cashed in with astonishingly simple best-sellers.
 
This guide, by best-selling author Marc McCutcheon, shows the reader how to get in on...
Secrets of a Freelance Writer: How to Make $100,000 a Year or More
AuthorRobert W. Bly
The definitive guide to becoming a successful freelance writer, now in an updated and expanded third edition
Secrets of a Freelance Writer has long been the authoritative guide to making big money as a commercial freelance writer.  In this new edition, you-ll find out how to make $100,000 a year-or...
The Art and Craft of Feature Writing: Based on the Wall Street Journal Guide
AuthorWilliam E. Blundell
ISBN0452261589
"Spot" or one-event news, written for print, employs a standard format, usually called "inverted pyramid." (Get the most important who-what-when-where-why-how up front, and as the paragraphs roll on, make the supporting information less and less vital to the reader's understanding of the story.)...
Spunk & Bite: A Writer's Guide to Punchier, More Engaging Language & Style
AuthorArthur Plotnik
ISBN0375721150
When too tightly leashed, writing chokes and loses its vitality. Although the rules of composition popularized in William Strunk Jr. and E. B. White's Elements of Style have been de rigueur for decades, they won't exactly set your writing free.

To the rescue comes Spunk & Bite, a guide...
Thinking Like Your Editor: How to Write Great Serious Nonfiction and Get It Published
AuthorSusan Rabiner
ISBN0393324613
Over 50,000 books are published in America each year, the vast majority nonfiction. Even so, many writers are stymied in getting their books published, never mind gaining significant attention for their ideas—and substantial sales. This is the book editors have been recommending to would-be...
The Mindful Writer: Noble Truths of the Writing Life
AuthorDinty W. Moore
ISBN1614290075
Going a step beyond typical "how to write" books, Moore illuminates the creative process: where writing and creativity originate, how mindfulness plays into work, how to cultivate good writing habits, how to grow as a writer — and a person! — and what it means to have a life dedicated to the craft...
Send
AuthorDavid Shipley
ISBN0307263649
• When should you email, and when should you call, fax, or just show up?
• What is the crucial–and most often overlooked–line in an email?
• What is the best strategy when you send (in anger or error) a potentially career-ending electronic bombshell?
Enter Send. Whether you email...
The Elements of Story: Field Notes on Nonfiction Writing
AuthorFrancis Flaherty
ISBN0061689149
“A splendid book for journalists (new or old), fiction writers, essayists, and critics. But it could also be of great use to the intelligent common reader, the man or woman who wonders why it’s impossible to finish reading certain stories and why others carry the reader in a vivid rush to the end.”
—Pete...
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