To Tell the Truth Practice and Craft in Narrative Nonfiction

Name: To Tell the Truth Practice and Craft in Narrative Nonfiction
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ISBN: 9780205605491

ISBN-10: 0205605494

ISBN-13: 9780205605491

Edition: 2009

Authors: Connie D. Griffin

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Can nonfiction writing be creative? Can creative writing be factual? Can anyone write? This book responds with a resounding "yes" as it sits down with the writer and bends over the task at hand, providing generous guidance, abundant examples, and numerous models for analysis. To Tell the Truthpresents strategies for practice, prompts for generating new material, and creative approaches to research that both the beginning and experienced writer will find useful. Lively essays on craft by writers in the field create an intimate colloquium of like-minded readers and writers. Engages in current conversations in the popular field of narrative nonfiction, which ranges across memoir and biography,…

Book details

List price: $79.99
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Longman Publishing Group
Publication date: 9/14/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



Table Of Contents


Preface



Creativity And Nonfiction Writing



An Introduction to Storytelling



An Invitation to Creativity


Creativity and the Unconscious


Telling Our Stories


Getting Started


Writing as Process


Thinking Like a Writer


Writers on Writing


""How and Why,"" Jane Bernstein


Writing Personal Essays: On the Necessity of Turning Oneself into a Character, Phillip Lopate


Lyric Essay


""On the Street: Nobody Watches, Everyone Performs,"" Vivian Gornick