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Writing for Story: Craft Secrets of Dramatic Nonfiction

10 best books like Writing for Story: Craft Secrets of Dramatic Nonfiction (Jon Franklin): Chapter After Chapter: Discover the Dedication & Focus You Need to Write the Book of Your Dreams, The Fourth Genre: Contemporary Writers Of/On Creative Nonfiction, Telling True Stories: A Nonfiction Writers' Guide from the Nieman Foundation at Harvard University, The Situation and the Story: The Art of Personal Narrative, Tell It Slant: Writing and Shaping Creative Nonfiction, Writing from the Inside Out: Transforming Your Psychological Blocks to Release the Writer Within, Pen on Fire: A Busy Woman's Guide to Igniting the Writer Within, Inventing the Truth: The Art and Craft of Memoir, Writing Life Stories, Creative Nonfiction: Researching and Crafting Stories of Real Life

Chapter After Chapter: Discover the Dedication & Focus You Need to Write the Book of Your Dreams
AuthorHeather Sellers
Writing a book requires a focus, a sense of knowing and trusting in yourself and your work. And it requires an unflinching commitment to staying the course. Chapter After Chapter shows you how to build on your good writing habits, accrue and recognize tiny successes, and turn your dedication to the craft...
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...
The Situation and the Story: The Art of Personal Narrative
AuthorVivian Gornick
ISBN0374528586
A guide to the art of personal writing, by the author of Fierce Attachments and The End of the Novel of Love

All narrative writing must pull from the raw material of life a tale that will shape experience, transform event, deliver a bit of wisdom. In a story or a novel the "I" who tells this tale can...
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 from the Inside Out: Transforming Your Psychological Blocks to Release the Writer Within
AuthorDennis Palumbo
ISBN0471382663
"Dennis Palumbo has great insight into a writer s psyche.... Every writer should have a shrink or this book. The book is cheaper."
--Gary Shandling, actor, comic, and writer "wise, compassionate, and funny..."
--Aram Saroyan, poet and novelist

"Dennis Palumbo provides a sense...
Pen on Fire: A Busy Woman's Guide to Igniting the Writer Within
AuthorBarbara DeMarco-Barrett
ISBN0156029782
In her fifteen years of teaching, Barbara DeMarco-Barrett has found that the biggest stumbling block for aspiring writers (especially women) is not fear of the blank page but frustration with the lack of time. What woman doesn't have too much to do and too little time? Finding an hour free of work, children,...
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...
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...
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...
The Art of Creative Nonfiction: Writing and Selling the Literature of Reality
AuthorLee Gutkind
ISBN0471113565
A complete guide to the art and craft of creative nonfiction—from one of its pioneer practitioners

The challenge of creative nonfiction is to write the truth in a style that is as accurate and informative as reportage, yet as personal, provocative, and dramatic as fiction. In this one-of-a-kind...
The Productive Writer: Tips & Tools to Help You Write More, Stress Less & Create Success
AuthorSage Cohen
ISBN1582979952
Take Control of Your Writing Life!

The creative process can be treacherous, even for the most experienced writer. Facing the blank page, staying inspired, sustaining momentum, managing competing priorities and coping with rejection are just a few of the challenges writers face regularly.

"The...
Getting the Words Right
AuthorTheodore A. Rees Cheney
The Secret to Good Writing

When asked by the Paris Review what compelled him to rewrite the ending of A Farewell to Arms 39 times, Ernest Hemingway replied, "Getting the words right." His answer echoes what every successful writer knows: The secret to all good writing is revision.

For...
Between the Lines: Master the Subtle Elements of Fiction Writing
AuthorJessica Page Morrell
Effective storytelling stems from many elements, the most crucial of which are unseen or blended in so unobtrusively that they are difficult to spot and analyze. Still, they are necessary to the wholeness and coherence of a story–to create a work that lingers and resonates in the reader's imagination.In...
Narrative Design: Working with Imagination, Craft, and Form
AuthorMadison Smartt Bell
ISBN0393320219
Focusing on the big picture as well as the crucial details, Bell examines twelve stories by both established writers (including Peter Taylor, Mary Gaitskill, and Carolyn Chute) and his own former students. A story's use of time, plot, character, and other elements of fiction are analyzed, and readers...
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...
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...
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.)...
Follow the Story: How to Write Successful Nonfiction
AuthorJames B. Stewart
ISBN0684850672
An indispensable guide to nonfiction writing from the Columbia Journalism School professor and Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist behind the bestsellers Blind Eye, Blood Sport, and Den of Thieves.

In Follow the Story, bestselling author and journalist James B. Stewart teaches you...
The Sound on the Page: Great Writers Talk about Style and Voice in Writing
AuthorBen Yagoda
ISBN0060938226
In writing, style matters. Our favorite writers often entertain, move, and inspire us less by what they say than by how they say it. In The Sound on the Page, acclaimed author, teacher, and critic Ben Yagoda offers practical and incisive help for writers on developing and discovering their own style...
Getting Into Character: Seven Secrets a Novelist Can Learn from Actors
AuthorBrandilyn Collins
ISBN0471058947
Proven techniques for creating vivid, believable characters

Want to bring characters to life on the page as vividly as fine actors do on the stage or screen? Getting into Character will give you a whole new way of thinking about your writing. Drawing on the Method acting theory that theater...
First Draft in 30 Days: A Novel Writer's System for Building a Complete and Cohesive Manuscript
AuthorKaren Wiesner
ISBN1582972966
Finish an outline so complete it reads like a first draft—in just 30 days!
Say goodbye to writing and rewriting with no results. Starting—and finishing—your novel has never been easier!
First Draft in 30 Days provides you with a sure-fire system to reduce time-intensive rewrites and...
The Art of Nonfiction: A Guide for Writers and Readers
AuthorAyn Rand
ISBN0452282314
A remarkable series of lectures on the art of creating effective nonfiction by one of the 20th century's most profound writers and thinkers--now available for the first time in print.Culled from sixteen informal lectures Ayn Rand delivered to a select audience in the late 1960s, this remarkable work...
Artful Sentences: Syntax as Style
AuthorVirginia Tufte
ISBN0961392185
In Artful Sentences: Syntax as Style,Virginia Tufte shows how standard sentence patterns and forms contribute to meaning and art in more than a thousand wonderful sentences from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The book has special interest for aspiring writers, students of literature...
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