Keep It Real: Everything You Need to Know About Researching and Writing Creative Nonfiction (edited by Lee Gutkind) provides writers with the working parameters
Keep It Real: Everything You Need to Know About Researching and Writing Creative Nonfiction (edited by Lee Gutkind) provides writers with the working parameters of the creative nonfiction genre, in a the form of glossary of concise entries that define and explain the anchoring elements of the genre.
This guide 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. Starting with the acknowledgment of sources, then running through fact-checking, metaphor, and navel gazing, and ending with writers’ responsibilities to their subjects, this book provides all the information writers need to write with verve while remaining true to their story.
Much of the content in this text was first published in the now-out-of-print Issue 29 of Creative Nonfiction. However the content in Keep it Real has been updated and expanded thanks to the work of the Creative Nonfiction Foundation.
The main component of Keep it Real is the "ABC's of Creative Nonfiction." This guide helps to quickly explain many of the often complicated and overlooked elements of creative nonfiction. Lee Gutkind and a team of writers and editors teamed up to deconstruct and explain exactly what it is that makes up nonfiction writing.
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
Robert S. Boynton
Kristen Cosby
Taha Ebrahimi
Hattie Fletcher
Lee Gutkind
Meredith Hall
Donna Hogarty
Kristen Iverson
Lori Jakiela
Barbra Lounsberry
Brenda Miller
Dinty W. Moore
Paul Morris
Dennis Palumbo
Lori Pfeiffer
Mimi Schwartz
Bryant Simon
Kathleen Tarr
Sarah Z. Wexler
Susan Yohe
The Creative Nonfiction Foundation pursues educational and publishing initiatives in the genre of literary nonfiction. Its objectives are to provide a venue, the journal Creative Nonfiction, for high quality nonfiction prose (memoir, literary journalism, personal essay); to serve as the singular strongest voice of the genre, defining the ethics and parameters of the field; and to broaden the genre's impact in the literary arena by providing an array of educational services and publishing activities.
The Creative Nonfiction Foundation was incorporated in 1994 and is a private not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organization. The Creative Nonfiction Foundation is supported by public and private funds contributed by the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, the Juliet Lea Hillman Simonds Foundation, the Vira I. Heinz Endowment, and the Jewish Healthcare Foundation, as well as by individual donors.
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