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Write Choices

Elements of Nonfiction Storytelling
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This book helps writers cultivate their nonfiction storytelling skills by exploring the hard choices writers confront when crafting any kind of factual narrative. Rather than isolating various forms of narrative nonfiction into categories or genres, Sue Hertz focuses on examining the common challenges that are unique to the nonfiction writing process. Integrating not only her own insights and experience as a journalist, nonfiction book author, and writing instructor, but also those of other established writers and editors representing all nonfiction styles of writing, Hertz aims to guide writers through key decisions in order to tell the best story possible. Blending how-to instruction with illuminating examples and writers' commentaries drawn from original interviews, Write Choices is a valuable resource for writers at any stage of their career seeking to understand the art and craft of factual narrative.
Chapter 1: What's the Big Idea? Where Lurk Subjects? What's the question? Chapter 2: What's the Form? Internal narratives External narratives Internal and external narratives Short essay? Kindle Single? Full-fledged book? Chapter 3: What's the Content? What do you know? What do you need to know? Where do you find content? Chapter 4: What's the Focus? How do you find focus? Where do you find focus? When do you find focus? Chapter 5: What's Structure? How do you find the structure? What are some structure options? Chapter 6: What are the Components? What's the opening? What point of view will guide the story? Who are the characters? What is the setting? Dialogue or direct quotes? What is the ending? Chapter 7: Pulling it all Together What we talk about when we talk about a first draft? What we talk about when we talk about revising
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