Keep It Real
Everything You Need to Know About Researching and Writing Creative Nonfiction
Published on 10. June 2013
160 pages
978-0-393-07789-6 (ISBN)
Description
The one guide every creative nonfiction writer needs to turn to when being "creative."
Writers of memoir and narrative nonfiction are experiencing difficult days with the discovery that some well-known works in the genre contain exaggerations--or are partially fabricated. But what are the parameters of creative nonfiction? Keep It Real begins by defining creative nonfiction. Then it explores the flexibility of the form--the liberties and the boundaries that allow writers to be as truthful, factual, and artful as possible. A succinct but rich compendium of ideas, terms, and techniques, Keep It Real clarifies the ins and outs of writing creative nonfiction. Starting with acknowledgment of sources, running through fact-checking, metaphor, and navel gazing, and responsibilities to their subjects, this book provides all the information you need to write with verve while remaining true to your story.More details
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Lee Gutkind
Keep It Real
Everything You Need to Know About Researching and Writing Creative Nonfiction
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01/2009
WW Norton & Co
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Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Contents
- Contributing
- Private and Public: The Range and Scope of Creative Nonfiction by Lee Gutkind
- The ABCs of Creative Nonfiction
- Acknowledgment of Sources
- Backdoor Access
- Checkbook Journalism
- Composite Characters
- Compression
- Defamation and Libel
- Evolution of the Genre
- Facts
- Fact-checking
- Family Members as Characters
- Forewords and Afterwords
- Frame
- Getting Inside Characters' Heads
- Guiding the Reader
- Gunkholing: Finding a Story
- History into Nonfiction Narrative
- The "I"
- Immersion
- Influencing Readers
- Keeping It Brief
- Legal Responsibilities of Publishers
- The Lyric Essay
- The Memoir Craze
- Metaphor
- Montage Writing
- The Narrative Impulse
- Navel-gazing
- Point of View
- Psychoanalyzing Characters
- Quotation Marks
- Reconstruction of Events
- Reflection
- The Roots of Memoir
- Scenes
- Subjectivity
- Tape Recording
- Truth
- Use of Imagination
- The Vagaries of Memory
- Whose Story to Tell
- Writers' Responsibility to Subjects
- About the Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Praise for
- Copyright
- Also Edited by Lee Gutkind
