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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" | |