Chance particulars : a writer's field notebook for travelers, bloggers, essayists, memoirists, novelists, journalists, adventurers, naturalists, sketchers, and other note-takers and recorders of life / Sara Mansfield Taber, illustrated by Maud Taber-Thomas.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Taber, Sara Mansfield, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Authorship--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Authorship.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (119 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2018]

Summary:

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- ELEMENTS OF FINE WRITING -- PURPOSE OF THE NOTEBOOK -- Goal, Quest, Story -- CHANCE PARTICULARS -- Use of the Senses -- Specificity, Precision, and Concrete Detail -- PLACE -- Landscape and Nature -- Towns, Streets, and Buildings -- PEOPLE -- Portraits and Interviews -- Encounters, Observations, and Activities -- FACTS, HISTORY, AND CULTURE -- Basic Facts, History, and Cultural Observations -- TECHNICAL AND OTHER PERTINENT INFORMATION -- Informational Notes -- CHRONICLE -- Record of Daily Activities and Travels -- PERSONAL RESPONSES -- Feelings and Contemplations -- COMMONPLACE NOTES: PERSPECTIVES OF OTHERS AND MISCELLANEA -- Quotations and Thoughts from Experts, Scholars, and Literary Forebears-and Other Miscellanea -- ASSOCIATIONS AND FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE -- Metaphor and Simile -- REFLECTIONS -- Thoughts and Musings -- WRITING NOTES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- APPENDIX

Contents:

Introduction

Elements of fine writing

Purpose of the notebook

Goal, quest, story

Chance particulars

Use of the senses

Specificity and concrete detail

Place

Landscape and nature

Towns, streets and buildings

People

Portraits and interviews

Encounters, observations and activities

Facts, history and culture

Basic facts, history and culture

Technical and other pertinent information

Informational notes

Chronicle

Record of daily activities and travels

Personal responses

Emotional responses

Commonplace notes: perspectives of others, and miscellanea

Quotations and thoughts from experts, scholars and literary forebears-and other miscellanea

Reflections

Thoughts and musings

Associations and figurative language

Metaphor and simile

Writing notes

About the author.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4214-2509-2

OCLC:

1031090872