Write choices : elements of nonfiction storytelling / Sue Hertz, University of New Hampshire

Author: Hertz, Sue
Published: Los Angeles : SAGE/CQ Press, [2016]
Physical Description: 1 online resource (231 pages) : illustrations

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Contents

chapter 1. What's the big idea? -- chapter 2. What's the form? -- chapter 3. What's the content? -- chapter 4. What's the focus? -- chapter 5. What's the structure? -- chapter 6. What are the components? -- chapter 7. Pulling it all together.

Summary

Developing narrative nonfiction writers at any stage of their career Write Choices: Elements of Nonfiction Storytelling helps writers cultivate their nonfiction storytelling skills by exploring the universal decisions writers confront when crafting factual narratives. Rather than isolating various forms of narrative nonfiction into categories or genres, Sue Hertz focuses on examining the common choices all true storytellers encounter, whether they are writing memoir, literary journalism, personal essays, or travel stories. Write Choices also includes digital storytelling. No longer confined to paper, today's narrative nonfiction writers must learn to write for electronic media, which may also demand photos, videos, and/or audio. Integrating not only her own insights and experience as a journalist, nonfiction book author, and writing instructor, but also those of other established nonfiction storytellers, ...

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ISBN

9781483395531 (ebook)

Bibliography Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-220) and index.

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