Format:
Online-Ressource (xi, 237 p)
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ill
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
0820336068
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9780820336060
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- ONE: The Longest Paragraph -- Writing Exercises -- TWO: Savory Words: The First Bite of Your Story -- Don't Just State Your Story - Reveal Your Story -- Move Readers with Active Words -- Following a Sensory Trail -- Writing Exercises -- A Note on Genre -- For Your Reading Pleasure: -- "Candy Cigarettes," -- THREE: Writing on Key: A Few Notes about Theme -- False Starts -- Starting True -- The Colors We Choose -- Writing Exercises -- For Your Reading Pleasure: -- "Rob Me Again," -- FOUR: Plotting Your Life -- Finding the Arc of Your Story -- Motivating Your Plot -- Thunderous Plots -- The Structure of Plot -- Crossing the Finish Line -- Turning Real Life into Art -- Writing Exercises -- For Your Reading Pleasure: -- "Scavengers," -- FIVE: Between Innocence and Experience: Finding Your Voice(s) -- Using Multiple Voices -- Your Everyday Voice and Your Literary Voice -- Guiding Voices -- Writing Exercises -- For Your Reading Pleasure: -- "The Visit," -- SIX: Mock Moons and Metaphor: Crafting Memoir into Art -- Finding Your Metaphors -- The Metaphoric Memoir -- Metaphor: A Window onto the World -- Writing Exercise -- For Your Reading Pleasure: -- "Tetanus,You Understand?" -- SEVEN: Writing in Style -- Your Story, Your Style -- The Muscular Sentence -- More Than Just And -- Not To Be -- Dialogue in Memoir -- Past or Present Tense? -- These Boots Are Made for Writing -- Writing Exercise -- For Your Reading Pleasure: -- "The Man behind the Shower Curtain," -- EIGHT: Marketing Your Memoir -- Getting Started -- Publishing Outlets: Pros and Cons of Each -- How to Decide What's Best for Your Book -- Promoting Yourself as a Professional Speaker -- Web Opportunities for Your Memoir -- The Importance of All Our Voices -- Writing Exercises -- NINE: Confessional and (Finally) Proud of It -- Western Civilization in an Eggshell.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-234)
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The longest paragraphSavory words : the first bite of your story -- Writing on key : a few notes about theme -- Plotting your life -- Between innocence and experience : finding your voice(s) -- Mock moons and metaphor : crafting memoir into art -- Writing in style -- Marketing your memoir -- Confessional and (finally) proud of it -- Appendix 1. The meandering river : an overview of the subgenres of creative nonfiction -- Appendix 2. Three confessional essays -- Appendix 3. For your reading pleasure : four full-length essays -- Appendix 4. Reading list of contemporary creative nonfiction.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 082033166X
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780820331669
Additional Edition:
Print version Fearless confessions
Language:
English
