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| Preface | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Beginning: Points of Inspiration | |
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| Keeping a Journal | |
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| Family Stories: History as Heartbeat | |
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| Memory and Imagination | |
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| Telling Lies to Tell the Truth | |
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| Making the Old Story New | |
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| A Picture Brings Forth a Thousand Words | |
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| Object Lessons | |
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| Exercises for Developing Craft and Technique | |
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| Voice and Style | |
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| Finding Your True Subjects | |
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| A Question of Style | |
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| Conditional Voice | |
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| Breaking the Rules | |
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| Perspective and Point of View | |
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| How You See It; How You Don't: Defining Perspective and Point of View | |
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| A Communal Story: Using Multiple Perspectives | |
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| Innocent Perspective | |
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| Using Biography | |
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| Detail, Image, and Symbol | |
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| Detailing a Narrative | |
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| Turning Abstractions into Images and Action | |
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| Using All of Your Senses | |
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| Writing from Art | |
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| Symbols, not Cymbals | |
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| Figurative Language | |
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| Diction | |
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| Origins of Words | |
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| Foreign Flavor | |
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| Simplify | |
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| Tell-tale Dialect | |
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| Setting | |
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| Setting with Personality | |
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| Setting from Family History | |
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| Setting Your Hometown | |
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| Creating Tension | |
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| Foundations of Tension | |
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| Plot | |
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| A Spell of Trouble: Conflict and Tension | |
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| Reversing the Action | |
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| Trading Characters, Settings, and Conflicts | |
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| Reverberating Closure | |
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| Rhythm | |
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| Finding Your Rhythm: Poetry in Prose | |
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| Song and Story | |
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| Listening to Nature | |
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| Character and Dialogue | |
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| Populating a Piece | |
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| Inside a Character's Mind | |
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| Compelling Characters | |
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| Dialogue Dropping from the Eaves | |
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| Exercises for Exploring Revision, Subgenres, and Frequent Concerns of Creative Nonfiction | |
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| Revision | |
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| Rereading, Reimagining, Reshaping | |
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| What's in a Name: Finding a Title | |
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| Revision: Beyond the Frame | |
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| Revision: Reimagining Character and Conflict | |
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| Creating Scenes: A Revision Narrative | |
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| Workshop: Thirteen Ways of Looking for Revision | |
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| Exploring the Subgenres of Creative Nonfiction | |
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| From Memory to Memoir | |
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| Researching a Life: Biographical Sketch | |
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| Personal Opinion: Taking a Stand | |
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| Living Sources: Gathering and Using Information | |
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| Reflective Writing: Reflecting on the World | |
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| Writing About Place | |
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| A Piece of History | |
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| Exploring Frequent Concerns of Creative Nonfiction | |
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| Finding the Emotional Truth | |
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| Writing Between the Lines: Subtext | |
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| Time Lines and the Larger Context | |
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| The Passage of Time | |
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| Vignettes | |
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| Mapping Your Memory | |
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| Writing Inside the Story: Metawriting | |
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| A Collection of Creative Nonfiction | |
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| "The Truth About Truffles" | |
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| "Superman and Me" | |
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| "Why I Love Tourists: Confessions of a Dharma Bum" | |
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| "An Entrance to the Woods" | |
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| "Myth & Uncertainty" from To Prove My Blood: A Tale of Emigration and the Afterlife | |
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| Excerpt from In Patagonia | |
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| "Silent Dancing" | |
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| "A Son in Shadow" | |
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| "Westbury Court" | |
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| "Bilingual/Bilingue | |
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| "Splendor and Squalor" from Among the White Moon Faces: An Asian-American Memoir of Homelands | |
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| "Lonely Impulse of Delight: One Reader's Childhood" | |
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| "Documented/Undocumented" | |
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| "The Flying Man" | |
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| "Biography of a Dress" | |
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| "Three Pokes of a Thistle" | |
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| "Looking at Aaron" from What Becomes You by Aaron Raz Link and Hilda Raz | |
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| "Landscape, History, and the Pueblo Imagination" | |
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| "A Modest Proposal" | |
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| "Mother Tongue" | |
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| "Crossing the Border" from The White Horse: A Colombian Journey | |
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| "Walking" | |
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| from Mississippi: An American Journey | |
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| Writers About the Art of Creative Nonfiction | |
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| "Nine Beginnings" | |
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| "The Creative Nonfiction Police" | |
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| "Making the Truth Believable" | |
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| "Toward a Definition of Creative Nonfiction" | |
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| "Other People's Memories" | |
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| "Humor Incarnate" | |
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| Index | |
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| Credits | |