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Writing and Shaping Creative Nonfiction | |
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How to Use This Book | |
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Introduction: Where to Begin? | |
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The Foundations of Creative Nonfiction | |
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Scene Versus Exposition Specificity and Detail Developing Character | |
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Dialogue Point of View Image and Metaphor | |
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The Rhythm of Your Sentences | |
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Try It Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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The Particular Challenges of Creative Nonfiction | |
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The "I" and The Eye: Framing Experience | |
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The Autobiographical Act | |
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The Pact with the Reader: Creating Trust | |
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The Permutations of "Truth" Cueing the Reader | |
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Some Pitfalls to Avoid: "Revenge Prose" and "The Therapist’s Couch." | |
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Try It Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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Unearthing Your Material | |
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The Body of Memory | |
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The Earliest Memory | |
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Metaphorical Memory | |
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"Muscle Memory" | |
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The Five Senses of Memory | |
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Try It Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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Writing the Family Situating | |
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Yourself in Relationship to Family | |
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The Use of Form | |
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The Writer as Biographer | |
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The Obstacle Course | |
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Permission to Speak Bearing Witness | |
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Try It Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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"Taking Place": Writing the Physical World | |
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Start Looking | |
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Writing About Home Setting | |
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Scenes: Place As Character Writing | |
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About Nature | |
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Writing About the Environment Witnesses to our World Travel | |
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Writing Try It | |
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Gathering the Threads of History | |
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Our Historical, Universal Selves | |
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The Ontological Layer | |
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You Are A "Privileged Observer" | |
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The Moose At The Window | |
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The "When" In Addition to "What" | |
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Try It Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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Writing the Arts | |
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The Visual Arts | |
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The Moving Image Arts | |
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Music Literature: The "Reading Narrative" | |
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Try It Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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Writing the Larger World | |
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Turning Outward: Finding Your Material | |
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Outside of the Self Science | |
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The Layperson’s Approach | |
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The Expert’s Approach | |
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Sports Writing | |
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The Myriad Things Around Us | |
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The Essay of Ideas | |
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Try It Suggestions for Further Readings | |
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The Forms of Creative Nonfiction | |
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The Personal Essay | |
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The Personal Essay Tradition | |
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The Ways Essays | |
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Work Memoir Literary or New Journalism | |
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The Sketch or Portrait | |
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The Persuasive Essay | |
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Humor Capacity of the Personal Essay | |
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Try It Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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The Lyric Essay | |
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What is the Lyric Essay? | |
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The Role of Intuition | |
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Finding the "Container": Forms of the Lyric Essay | |
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Flash Nonfiction Collage | |
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The Braided Essay | |
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The "Hermit Crab" Essay | |
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Try It Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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The Elements of Personal Reportage Cultivating | |
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The Need To Know Using Fact As Metaphor | |
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Researching a Key Fact Or Detail | |
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Working With Immersion Developing | |
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Interview Skills | |
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Developing Print | |
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Research Skills | |
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Winnowing Down | |
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Try It Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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The Writing Process and Revision | |
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The Drafting Process | |
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Global Revision vs. Line Editing | |
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Awareness of Audience | |
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Three Quick Fixes for Stronger Prose | |
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An Example of the Writing Process | |
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Try It Suggestions for Further Readings | |
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Last Words | |
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The Anthology | |
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Preface to the Anthology | |
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Atwood, Margaret | |
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"Nine Beginnings" | |
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"My Children Explain the Big Issues" | |
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"Notes of a Native Son" | |
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"So Long Ago" | |
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"The Fourth State of Matter" | |
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"Enterance to the Woods" | |
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"The Fine Art of Sighing" | |
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"Goodbye To All That" | |
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"Total Eclipse" | |
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"The Mickey Mantle Koan" | |
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"The Measure of My Powers" and "A Thing Shar" | |