Creative Nonfiction: Researching and Crafting Stories of Real Life

Gerard covers everything from getting the assignment to conducting a stirring interview to working with an editor - including how to go "where the story lives" to experience the first-hand emotional facts - sights, smells, sounds - that will give your story immediacy find the right form for the story you want to tell - essay, memoir, nature piece, political analysis, investigative exposes, personality profile write an opening that catches the reader's attention and an ending that leaves a lasting impression craft an engaging story by applying fiction elements such as dialogue, plot and conflict find a voice readers can trust, and a writing style that "sings" write other people's stories. Gerard addresses such ethical and legal questions as libel, privacy, "off the record" and revise your work in light of what you know now ... re-envision what the story really is. Gerard covers everything from getting the assignment to conducting a stirring interview to working with an editor - including how to go "where the story lives" to experience the first-hand emotional facts - sights, smells, sounds - that will give your story immediacy find the right form for the story you want to tell - essay, memoir, nature piece, political analysis, investigative exposes, personality profile write an opening that catches the reader's attention and an ending that leaves a lasting impression craft an engaging story by applying fiction elements such as dialogue, plot and conflict find a voice readers can... Read More

Categories: Action & Adventure