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10 best books like Writing Creative Nonfiction (Carolyn Forché): The Fourth Genre: Contemporary Writers Of/On Creative Nonfiction, Telling True Stories: A Nonfiction Writers' Guide from the Nieman Foundation at Harvard University, Keep It Real: Everything You Need to Know About Researching and Writing Creative Nonfiction, Tell It Slant: Writing and Shaping Creative Nonfiction, Writing the Memoir, Old Friend from Far Away: The Practice of Writing Memoir, Inventing the Truth: The Art and Craft of Memoir, Your Life as Story: Discovering the "new Autobiography" and Writing Memoir as Literature, Writing Life Stories, Finding Your Voice: How to Put Personality in Your Writing

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...
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...
Keep It Real: Everything You Need to Know About Researching and Writing Creative Nonfiction
AuthorLee Gutkind
ISBN0393065618
Writers of memoir and narrative nonfiction are experiencing difficult days with the discovery that some well-known works in the genre contain exaggerations—or are partially fabricated. But what are the parameters of creative nonfiction? Keep It Real begins by defining creative nonfiction....
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...
Writing the Memoir
AuthorJudith Barrington
ISBN0933377509
Since Writing the Memoir came out in early 1997 it has sold roughly 80,000 copies and is consistently praised as "the best book on memoir out there." It is thought-provoking, explanatory, and practical: each chapter ends with writing exercises. It covers everything from questions of truth and ethics...
Old Friend from Far Away: The Practice of Writing Memoir
AuthorNatalie Goldberg
ISBN1416535020
I’ve been doing Julia Cameron’s morning pages since November last year. The idea is that you freewrite three pages: anything - everything - that comes to mind. In February I felt I was ready to move on to some morning writing that was a bit more structured, and use some prompts.

I love Natalie...
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...
Your Life as Story: Discovering the "new Autobiography" and Writing Memoir as Literature
AuthorTristine Rainer
ISBN0874779227
Blending literary scholarship with practical coaching on how to craft short or long life narratives, Rainer traces the history of autobiography from Egyptian inscriptions through its recent evolution on the bestseller lists. Aided by examples from such writers as Maya Angelou, Russell Baker,...
Writing Life Stories
AuthorBill Roorbach
ISBN1884910475
This superb resource provides professional guidance for all writing-related correspondence, be it a query to an editor, a request for a celebrity interview, or anything else. Writer's will discover: Why boldness beats blandness in queries every time; The 10 basics they must have in their article...
Finding Your Voice: How to Put Personality in Your Writing
AuthorLes Edgerton
ISBN1582971730
After you've read the writing books that point out all the errors you made when you were starting out, and then you've read the writing books that make you feel like you'll never "get there" with your writing, this book is a refreshing boost to your confidence.

"If you’ve read rabidly all your...
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...
Writing for Your Life: Discovering the Story of Your Life's Journey
AuthorDeena Metzger
ISBN0062506129
Pros:

-This book has some of the most creative and deepest writing prompts I've ever experienced.
-Those who follow the writing exercises will derive both personal and professional insight.
-This book can be used by writers of all levels.

Cons:
-The author disses "genre"...
Fiction Writer's Workshop
AuthorJosip Novakovich
ISBN1884910394
This book exemplifies the best of a writing workshop: thought-provoking instruction, a charismatic teacher and illuminating examples from classic and contemporary literary masters.
Each chapter explores a different aspect of the art of fiction and ends with a series of writing exercises...
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...
Now Write! Nonfiction: Memoir, Journalism and Creative Nonfiction Exercises from Today's Best Writers
AuthorSherry Ellis
ISBN1585427586
An essential handbook for nonfiction writers, featuring the trusted personal writing exercises of today's masters of creative non-fiction, including Gay Talese, Reza Aslan, John Matteson, Tilar Mazzeo, and many more!

Beginners and seasoned writers alike will relish the opportunity...
The Well-Fed Writer: Financial Self-Sufficiency as a Freelance Writer in Six Months or Less
AuthorPeter Bowerman
ISBN0967059844
Booklist In this era of entrepreneurialism, Atlanta freelancer Peter Bowerman shows those timid (but talented) souls how almost anyone can forge ahead as an independent writer. His advice is good, couched in brassy prose that is easy to read. He anticipates every conceivable question and issue,...
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...
Writer Mama: How to Raise a Writing Career Alongside Your Kids
AuthorChristina Katz
ISBN1582974411
As a write-at-home mom, Christina Katz's book practically jumped off the shelf at me. "Writer Mama: How to Raise a Writing career Alongside Your Kids"? That's exactly what I was trying to do. Flipping through it, I felt it might provide some useful info, so I purchased it, making sure to save the receipt...
Writer's Digest Handbook of Magazine Article Writing
AuthorMichelle Ruberg
ISBN1582973342
THE Guide to Writing and Selling Magazine Articles!

This comprehensive, practical, how-to guide answers all of your questions about writing for magazines. In this all-new second edition of a best-selling classic, today's most successful freelance writers, including Robert Bly, Linda...
Head First: The Biology of Hope and the Healing Power of the Human Spirit
AuthorNorman Cousins
ISBN0140139656
The book is interesting, but it gets repetitive as it goes on. It chronicles the author's time at UCLA medical school in the 70s and 80s building a program in psychoneuroimmunology, as part of his interest in documenting the health effects of positive emotions. Cousins is not a scientist or a medical...
The Portable MFA in Creative Writing
AuthorThe New York Writers Workshop
ISBN1582973504
Get the core knowledge of a prestigious MFA education without the tuition.

Have you always wanted to get an MFA, but couldn't because of the cost, time commitment, or admission requirements?

Well now you can fulfill that dream without having to devote tons of money or time. The Portable...
Storycraft: The Complete Guide to Writing Narrative Nonfiction
AuthorJack R. Hart
ISBN0226318141
From the work of the New Journalists in the 1960s, to the New Yorker essays of John McPhee, Susan Orlean, Atul Gawande, and a host of others, to blockbuster book-length narratives such as Mary Roach’s Stiff or Erik Larson’s Devil in the White City, narrative nonfiction has come into its own. Yet...
Line by Line: How to Edit Your Own Writing
AuthorClaire Kehrwald Cook
ISBN0395393914
Beyond Strunk & White, there are few classic references for the basic copyediting that so many authors are ill-equipped to do. Line by Line is one of the classics, and it's something one should read through every four or five years. (I say that having only poked around in it, previously. This is my...
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