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Record Nr.

UNINA9910149361603321

Autore

Hertz Sue

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Los Angeles : , : SAGE/CQ Press, , [2016]

ISBN

9781483383217

1483383210

9781483322629

1483322629

9781483395531

1483395537

9781483311746

1483311740

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (231 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

808/.036

Soggetti

Narration (Rhetoric)

Authorship

Storytelling

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

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

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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, ...