Writing Creative Nonfiction
Chantilly, VA : The Great Courses, [2012]
Format: DVD
Description: 4 videodiscs (720 min.) : DVD video sound, colour ; 12 cm + 1 course guidebook (iv, 166 pages ; 20 cm).
Whether you're looking to launch into a new professional career as a creative nonfiction writer, dabble in the genre as a pastime, start a personal blog, or simply get inside the mind of a creative nonfiction writer at work, you'll find much to learn from and enjoy in Writing Creative Nonfiction. These 24 lectures by award-winning writing instructor and Professor Tilar J. Mazzeo of Colby College, a New York Times best-selling author, are a chance for you to explore the entire process of writing creative nonfiction, from brainstorming for the perfect idea to getting your final product noticed by literary agents and publishers. Filled with helpful tips and techniques, memorable examples from well-known writers, and engaging exercises, it's a learning experience that proves that--with the right instructor--writing creative nonfiction can be mastered, practiced, and enjoyed by anyone with a desire to share his or her personal story.
Series: Great courses (DVD). Literature & language.
Contents:
Disc 1. Welcome to creative nonfiction -- Finding the story -- Honoring the nonfiction contract -- Writing great beginnings -- Show, don't tell -- Launching a narrative arc. Disc 2. Cliffhangers and page turners -- Building dramatic sentences -- Rhetorical devices and emotional impact -- Putting it all together -- Revealing character in words and actions -- Creating compelling characters. Disc 3. Character psychology -- Getting inside the heads of your characters -- Using narrative perspective -- Shaping your voice -- Writing the gutter--how to not tell a story -- Dialogue strategies in creative nonfiction. Disc 4. Researching creative nonfiction -- How to not have people hate you -- Revising your work -- Building your audience -- Getting published -- Being a writer.
ISBN:
1598038427
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
DVD LIT Writing Wri | Main (Downtown) | First Level, DVD | In |
"Course Number 2154"--Container.
"24 lectures, 30 minutes per lecture"--Container.
Videorecording.
"24 lectures, 30 minutes per lecture"--Container.
Videorecording.