You Can't Make This Stuff Up: The Complete Guide to Writing Creative Nonfiction--from Memoir to Literary Journalism and Everything in Between by Lee Gutkind

Author:Lee Gutkind
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Published: 2012-08-13T14:00:00+00:00

EXERCISE 11

Now it is time for you to put the techniques we’ve discussed into practice. Look at the pieces you have been writing. Do you have dialogue, specific and intimate detail? Inner point of view? Do the incidents you are capturing have a definite starting and stopping point? If so, then terrific. They are real building blocks—scenes. And if not, look for opportunities to turn telling into showing through all of the techniques we have been considering, beginning with dialogue. Are your characters described in such a way that your readers can actually see them? The descriptions don’t have to be long or detailed. Go back and see how Sack captures his characters in a few pointed and vivid words. Maybe you even want to attempt to inject an inner point of view—showing your readers the world through your characters’ eyes. You might know enough to make this possible.

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