Write Choices: Elements of Nonfiction Storytelling - Softcover

Hertz, Susan (Sue) M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1452230854 ISBN 13: 9781452230856

Publisher: CQ Press, 2015

Synopsis

Developing narrative nonfiction writers at any stage of their career

 

Write Choices: Elements of Nonfiction Storytelling helps writers cultivate their nonfiction storytelling skills by exploring the universal decisions writers confront when crafting factual narratives. Rather than isolating various forms of narrative nonfiction into categories or genres, Sue Hertz focuses on examining the common choices all true storytellers encounter, whether they are writing memoir, literary journalism, personal essays, or travel stories. Write Choices also includes digital storytelling. No longer confined to paper, today′s narrative nonfiction writers must learn to write for electronic media, which may also demand photos, videos, and/or audio. Integrating not only her own insights and experience as a journalist, nonfiction book author, and writing instructor, but also those of other established nonfiction storytellers, both print and digital, Hertz aims to guide emerging writers through key decisions to tell the best story possible. Blending how-to instruction with illuminating examples and commentaries drawn from original interviews with master storytellers, Write Choices is a valuable resource for all nonfiction writers, from memoirists to essayists to literary journalists, at any stage of their career.

About this title

About the Author

Sue Hertz is an associate professor of English and nonfiction writing at the University of New Hampshire where she teaches in both its graduate and undergraduate writing programs. 

From the Back Cover

Looking at the hard choices writers confront when crafting any kind of factual narrative, this book helps journalism students to improve specifically their non-fiction storytelling skills.

Edition details

• Publisher: CQ Press
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1452230854
• ISBN 13: 9781452230856
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256