Taking the day off, so wanted to wish you Happy Thanksgiving, if it’s a holiday for you, and cheers on the writing if you’re working on your story today. I’ll be back tomorrow.
What are the things that matter to your characters? What things matter to your readers? After we get the obligatory ambiguity out of the way, we settle into talking about the "stakes" and the escalation thereof.
0 items in your cart Home Checkout Log In Fundamentals Of Nonfiction Writing Course : Id 1011-17 Course Start : Date 11-29-2012- Course End : Date 02-21-2013 : Instructor Carolyn Walker Available : Seats 10 : Tuition 335 Description Nonfiction writing appeals to the amateur historian anthropologist psychologist biographer in all of us . When you pursue nonfiction writing , you can research , interview , and explore virtually any subject that interests you , and then write about what you’ve . learned Contemporary nonfiction is more than facts and figures readers expect their nonfiction to be engaging , compelling , entertaining and , of course , informative . Apply creative writing techniques to any nonfiction project , from personal essays to articles or full-length books . You will work
It’s microcasting time! This week we take a crack at the following listener questions: What percentage of a rough draft makes it into print? What are the pitfalls of jumping from novels to short fiction, and vice versa? Do you need to start with short fiction first? (This answer involves this link to Jim C. [...]