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Writing creative nonfiction [videorecording (DVD)] / Tilar J. Mazzeo.

by Mazzeo, Tilar J.

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Teaching Co., c2012.

DVD 808.02 M477w

Creative nonfiction -- Authorship.

Creative writing.

Nonfiction novel -- Technique.

Exposition (Rhetoric)

Great courses (DVD)

Great courses (DVD). Literature & language. Writing.

9781598038422 (set)

Alternate title:

Great Courses. Writing creative nonfiction [videorecording (DVD)]

[videorecording (DVD)] /

4 videodiscs (ca. 12 hrs.) : digital sd., col. ; 12 cm. + 1 course guidebook (iv, 166 p. ; 19 cm.).

"24 lectures / 30 minutes per lecture"--Container.

Book contains lecture transcripts and outlines, timeline, glossary, biographical notes, and bibliography.

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.

Lecturer, Professor Tilar J. Mazzeo, Colby College.

These 24 half-hour lectures 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.

Filmed lectures.

Instructional films.

Educational films.

Teaching Company.

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