Winding Roads: Exercises in Writing Creative Nonfiction offers exciting and challenging exercises with accompanying models which help focus student writing and allow instructors to address specific elements of writing creative nonfiction. The numerous exercises set simple tasks, enabling students to practice their technique and develop existing skills. The process of beginning with small pieces that allow writers to progress to larger endeavors makes writing easier to manage and helps them learn to isolate each element of the piece.
Written by an award-winning author and Fulbright Scholar, Winding Roads: Exercises in Writing Creative Nonfiction, a new first edition, offers exciting and challenging exercises to help focus your creative nonfiction writing. The numerous exercises set simple tasks, enabling you to practice your technique and develop your existing skills. The author believes that the greatest question you will face as a writer is how you cast or shape your piece. Thus, the process of beginning with small pieces that allow you to progress to larger endeavors makes writing easier to manage and helps you learn to isolate each element of your piece. Active lessons with prompts will have you writing day after day.
Other titles written by Diane Thiel include Crossroads: Creative Writing in Four Genres and Open Roads: Exercises in Writing Poetry. You may purchase copies by going to http://www.mypearsonstore.com.
WHAT YOU'LL FIND IN THIS EDITION
- An extensive anthology of essays serves as models for your own writing.
- Text includes a very strong section on revision, helping you to consider alternative ways of shaping your essay.
- Numerous exercises address each element of writing creative nonfiction separately, helping you to understand all the elements included in creating an effective piece of writing.
- Various approaches to writing creative nonfiction are clearly examined, followed by extensive practice of each specific technique.
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