Great courses (DVD)

DVD

Disc 1: 1. Welcome to creative nonfiction -- 2. Finding the story -- 3. Honoring the nonfiction contract -- 4. Writing great beginnings -- 5. Show, don't tell -- 6. Launching a narrative arc. Disc 2: 7. Cliffhangers and page turners -- 8. Building dramatic sentences -- 9. Rhetorical devices and emotional impact -- 10. Putting it all together -- 11. Revealing character in words and actions -- 12. Creating compelling characters. Disc 3: 13. Character psychology -- 14. Getting inside the heads of your characters -- 15. Using narrative perspective -- 16. Shaping your voice -- 17. Writing the gutter--how to not tell a story -- 18. Dialogue strategies in creative nonfiction. Disc 4: 19. Researching creative nonfiction -- 20. How to not have people hate you -- 21. Revising your work -- 22. Building your audience -- 23. Getting published -- 24. Being a writer

Professor Tilar J. Mazzeo, Colby College