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Now Write! Nonfiction: Memoir, Journalism and Creative Nonfiction Exercises from Today's Best Writers
by Sherry Ellis
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. Book is clean crisp and shows very little wear. pages are clean and unmarked but do show very light tanning around edges. Now Write! Nonfiction: Memoir, Journalism and Creative Nonfiction Exercises from Today's Best Writers by Sherry Ellis- Now Write! Nonfiction: Memoir, Journalism, and Creative Nonfiction Exercises from Today's Best Writers and Teachers- Copyright 2009 by author. Book design by Gretchen Achilles Publisher Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin- Pages-332 -tpaperback Pub- Date-2009- - ISBN1585427586 -09781585427581-Language Arts -herry Ellis is the editor of NOW WRITE! Fiction Writing Exercises from Today's Best Writers and Teachers and NOW WRITE! NONFICTION, as well as a personal writing coach. Her author interviews have appeared in the Kenyon Review, The Writer's Chronicle, Glimmer Train, and AGNI, as well as other literary and arts magazines. She lives in Massachusetts.-see pictures maybe this will do it maybe it won't -Expedited Shipping available-by request/ price adjust-..Ruth Reaser..LAX Vespa shipped -United States Post to fulfill your order, Los Angeles I carefully pack your book,hop on my Vespa visit the PO to have it placed in our mail system.. your books wrapped,not co-mingled,you get the copy you were viewing. Carefully packed...Gift just let me know..-Now Write 4093 FBA RT 45 -Ruth Reaser-Los Angeles- LAX Vespa -
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An essential handbook for nonfiction writers, featuring the trusted personal writing exercises of today's masters of creative non-fiction, including Gay Talese, Reza Aslan, John Matteson, Tilar Mazzeo, and many more! Beginners and seasoned writers alike will relish the opportunity to use the top-notch writing exercises collected in Now Write! Nonfiction culled from the personal stashes of bestselling and critically-acclaimed nonfiction authors like legendary essayist Gay Talese ( Thy Neighbor's Wife ), New York Times -bestselling authors Ishmael Beah ( A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier ) Reza Aslan ( No God but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam ), and Tilar Mazzeo ( The Widow Clicquot ), 2008 Pulitzer Prize-winner John Matteson ( Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father ), creative nonfiction icon Lee Gutkind ( Creative Nonfiction magazine), and many other top memoirists, journalists, and teachers of creative nonfiction, these exercises offer fresh ideas for every facet of creative nonfiction writing, from pushing through writers block to organizing a story, capturing character to fine-tuning dialogue, injecting new life into a finished piece to starting a new work from scratch. Now Write! Nonfiction will take you out into the field with creative nonfiction's master practitioners: *Peek inside Gay Talese's mind, as he shares the "writer's road map" he used to organize information for his classic book Thy Neighbor's Wife and his seminal essay "Frank Sinatra Has a Cold." *Learn from Reza Aslan why what you remember isn't as important as why you remember it the way you do *Explore the importance of cultural nuance in language with Ishmael Beah *Discover Lee Gutkind's simple trick, performed with a highlighter, that can help any writer identify whether their piece is truly showing action, or just telling An essential resource that will help writers of any level to hone their craft and get writing, Now WRite! Nonfiction offers over 80 quick, simple excersises trusted by top nonfiction writers to get their pen moving!
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- Title
- Now Write! Nonfiction: Memoir, Journalism and Creative Nonfiction Exercises from Today's Best Writers
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- Sherry Ellis
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- Book design by Gretchen Achilles
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- 2009
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- Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin
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- New York
- Date Published
- 2009
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- Now Write! Nonfiction: Memoir, Journalism, and Creative Nonfiction Exercises from Today's Best Writers and Teachers- Copyright 2009 by author. Book design by Gretchen Achilles Publisher Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin- Pages-332 -tpaperback Pub- Date-2009- ISBN
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