Writing Creative Nonfiction

presents more than thirty essays examining every key element of the craft, from researching ideas and structuring the story, to reportage and personal reflection. You'll learn from some of today's top creative nonfiction writers, including: • - Analyze your motivation for writing, its value, and its strength. - Discover how interesting, compelling essays can be drawn from every corner of your life and the world in which you live. - Build your narrator–yourself–into a fully fleshed-out character, giving your readers a clearer, more compelling idea of who is speaking and why they should listen. - Develop a narrative strategy for structuring your story and making it cohesive. - Master the journalistic ethics of creative nonfiction. - Use satire, exaggeration, juxtaposition, and other forms of humor in creative nonfiction. - Understand the narrative stance–why and how an author should, or should not, enter into the story. Through insightful prompts and exercises, these contributors help make the challenge of writing creative nonfiction–whether biography, true-life adventure, memoir, or narrative history–a welcome, rewarding endeavor. You'll also find an exciting, creative nonfiction "reader" comprising the final third of the book, featuring pieces from Barry Lopez, Annie Dillard, Beverly Lowry, Phillip Lopate, and more–selections so extraordinary, they will teach, delight, inspire, and entertain you for years to come!