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True stories : guides for writing from your life / Rebecca Rule & Susan Wheeler.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rule, Rebecca.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Authorship.
- Journalism--Authorship.
- Journalism.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 284 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Portsmouth, NH : Heinemann, [2000]
- Summary:
- We all have stories to tell about our lives and the lives of people we know. Rule and Wheeler help new and experienced writers commit those stories to paper. With passion and humor, they describe the writing process, from the inkling of a subject, to drafts, to a final product.
- Contents:
- Dare to take yourself seriously 19
- You are your own best subject 20
- Ways writers write 22
- Jot down random ideas 25
- Finding good subjects 26
- More on how writers collide with, stumble on, and sniff out subjects 34
- Hot topics 41
- Tackle your best subject now 43
- No life is boring 44
- Write to discover, not to rehash 46
- The no-critics-allowed notebook 53
- How-To Techniques 55
- Why learn craft 57
- Leads 59
- Titles 66
- Using conflict, tension, and questions 69
- Finding an angle into your subject 74
- Be specific 78
- Create an experience for your reader 83
- When to show and when to tell 85
- Scenes 87
- Playing with time, or the day grammaw died 103
- Expanding time 108
- The nursing home 110
- Compressing time 115
- Use and misuse of chronology 119
- Leaping ahead or back in time 122
- Stringing a subject along: a way to look at structure 125
- Finding meaning 129
- Endings 138
- Writing about people 141
- Writing about places 147
- Exploring with metaphor 151
- Using your life as you write about reading 154
- Passion on the page 162
- Advice About Process 171
- Take risks and fail: all writers belly flop 173
- Writing habits: "one God damned word after another God damned word" 175
- Voice 178
- How to revise 184
- A reviser's checklist 192
- Editing 196
- Radical surgery 197
- Fine-tuning 204
- Ethics and The Writer's Life 211
- Writing as reflection 213
- Tell the truth 214
- Finding the courage to tell the truth 217
- Breaking the rules 220
- Stretching the boundaries of nonfiction 221
- Revealing other people's secrets 227
- Bypassing writer's block 231
- Writing workshops 236
- Protect your right to write 240
- Keep the faith, keep going 242
- Their Stories 243
- "The Painting Lesson" / Emile Birch 245
- "Tracks" / Alan DeCosta 248
- "To Paris, Please" / Sybille Goldberg 250
- "Backstroke" / Donna J. Kuethe 257
- "Saying Kaddish for Peter" / Michael Lowenthal 259
- "Canning Jars" / Sandell Morse 263
- "Mildred's Snowdrops" / Hillary Nelson 267
- "Visitation" / Pat Parnell 272
- "A Father's Eyes" / Stephen Schultz 275
- "Rabbit Doll" / Pat Wilson 278.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [281]-284).
- ISBN:
- 0325000468
- OCLC:
- 42027461
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