CD Audiobook
Writing creative nonfiction / Tilar J. Mazzeo.
"Creative nonfiction can open whole new windows on the way you and your readers experience history - maybe your history. This course will help you write effectively about the things that matter to you, and it will introduce you to the exciting and quickly growing field of creative nonfiction - the art of bringing all the traditional strategies of fictional storytellinhg to narrating real-life events. In this course you will learn how to craft powerful memoirs and family histories, how to write a biography of a fascinating figure, the history of an inspiring moment, or a work of riveting travel history. This course takes you from the beginning to the end of the process of writing creative nonfiction: from finding your story and crafting great beginnings to finding an auciencefor your book and working through the revision process"--Taken from the course scope.
Record details
- ISBN: 1598038419
- ISBN: 9781598038415
- Physical Description: 12 audio discs (12 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (iv, 166 pages ; 19 cm).
- Publisher: Chantilly, Va : Teaching Co., ©2012.
Content descriptions
- General Note:
- Compact discs.In two containers.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- Volume 1. Disc 1: Lecture 1. Welcome to creative nonfiction -- Lecture 2. Finding the story -- Disc 2: Lecture 3. Honoring the nonfiction contract -- Lecture 4. Writing great beginnings -- Disc 3: Lecture 5. Show, don't tell -- Lecture 6. Launching a narrative arc. Disc 4: Lecture 7. Cliffhangers and page turners -- Lecture 8. Building dramatic sentences -- Disc 5: Lecture 9. Rhetorical devices and emotional impact -- Lecture 10. Putting it all together -- Disc 6: Lecture 11. Revealing character in words and actions -- Lecture 12. Creating compelling characters.Volume 2. Disc 7: Lecture 13. Character psychology -- Lecture 14. Getting inside the heads of your characters -- Disc 8: Lecture 15. Using narrative perspective -- Lecture 16. Shaping your voice -- Disc 9: Lecture 17. Writing the gutter--how to not tell a story -- Lecture 18. Dialogue strategies in creative nonfiction. Disc 10: Lecture 19. Researching creative nonfiction -- Lecture 20. How to not have people hate you -- Disc 11: Lecture 21. Revising your work -- Lecture 22. Building your audience -- Disc 12: Lecture 23. Getting published -- Lecture 24. Being a writer.
- Participant or Performer Note:
- Professor Tilar J. Mazzeo, Colby College.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lummi Library | PN 3377.5 .R45 M39 2012 | 680114 | Stacks | Available | - |
| Lummi Library | PN 3377.5 .R45 M39 2012 Vol. 1 | 680115 | Audio Shelf | Available | - |
| Lummi Library | PN 3377.5 .R45 M39 2012 Vol. 2 | 680116 | Audio Shelf | Available | - |