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Jared Gardner, Elizabeth Hewitt, Oliver Scheiding - Collected Writings of Charles Brockden Brown

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Collected Writings of Charles Brockden Brown

2022

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Part III WRITING FOR THE PORT FOLIO (1809–1810) BY CHARLES BROCKDEN BROWN S. 511-578

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Jerry Lanson - Writing for Others, Writing for Ourselves

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Writing for Others, Writing for Ourselves

2010

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Writing Examples S. 173-174

„… 173Many of the writing samples in the pages that follow are my own, in part because this is a book …” „… published)Times-Picayune (New Orleans)USA TodayWall Street JournalWashington PostWriting Examples174 Writing …”

Chapter 2: A Little Jazz S. 9-14

„… to tap your inner creative self and stretch your writ-ing muscles than finding that perfect place to …” „… think.I used to enjoy writing about as much as I enjoyed my older daughter Betsy’s first clarinet recital …” „… . Petersburg, Florida, in the early eighties, where I met my first “writing doctor.”“Doctor,” I blurted out …”

Notes S. 169-172

„… Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life (New York: Anchor Books, 1995), xxvi. 2. William Zinsser …” „… , On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction, 25th anniversary ed. (New York: Quill, 2001 …” „… ), 49.CHAPTER 2: A LITTLE JAZZ 1. Peter Elbow, Writing with Power: Techniques for Mastering the Writing …”

Index S. 175-182

„… Arlington National Cemetery, 4The Art and Craft of Feature Writing (Blundell), 45, 59, 62articles, 107“The …” „… Bertrand, Sophie, 101–2, 109–11Best Newspaper Writing 1997 (book), 123Binder, Jan, 63, 70Bird by Bird …” „… Art and Craft of Feature Writing, 45, 59, 62Boets, Philippe, 60bookending, 22–23, 123Boston Globe, 49 …”

Chapter 1: Finding a Place—and Space—to Think S. 1-8

„… options. I could contemplate my computer keyboard until something struck me (serious writing, any serious …” „… “repetitive stress writing.” It is noninsurable illness, triggered when the brain shuts down and fingers type …” „… better chance of surfacing to help me solve a story’s problems. (A writing coach I know calls this …”

Preface

„… Writing for Others, Writing for OurselvesROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS, INC.Lanham • Boulder …” „… • New York • Toronto • Plymouth, UKWriting for Others, Writing for OurselvesTelling Stories in an Age …” „… Cataloging-in-Publication DataLanson, Jerry. Writing for others, writing for ourselves : telling stories in an age of …”

Chapter 8: Honing the Focus S. 65-72

„… 65A strong storyline needs to be concise, arousing, and expressible in a sentence or two.—Writing …” „… writing.What Stepp calls that “expressible sentence or two” has another name. It is called a focus statement or …” „… about a blocked writer who teaches writing for a living.2. A story about a man who keeps banging into …”

Chapter 3: Culling Life’s Experience S. 15-24

„… castle region west of Provence, I hadn’t planned on writing a thing. But our white-knuckle drive on roads …” „… On Writing Well. “This is the personal transaction that’s at the heart of good nonfiction writing.”1 …” „… succinct, self-disciplined clarity of a well-crafted story. Writing from personal experience can also solve …”

Chapter 13: Organizing Stories S. 119-146

„… resolved, warns Jon Franklin, in his book Writing for Story. “A story consists of a sequence of actions …” „… a symmetry to reading and writing that, as I get older, I realize may just be part of how we’re …” „… to teaching feature writing, it won’t lead you through a dozen or more story types with names such as …”

Chapter 15: Finding a Niche S. 155-164

„… that blogging has opened up new dimensions in her writing. “It’s so freeing and so different.” Kelly …” „… knew she’d need to culti-vate this looser, more personal style in writing a memoir.The changing …” „… reductions in well-paid, freelance work. New forms of writing, often shorter, sassier, interlinked, and …”

Chapter 6: Finding Fresh Stories S. 43-56

„… of self-publishers and the professionally published. Aware that no piece of writing can be any better …” „… is to us?” asks William Blundell, in his book The Art and Craft of Feature Writing. “That’s the nut …” „… , trying to do some writing.“I can move it if you want,” my neighbor said. His name is Wei Ziqi, and he had …”

Chapter 14: No One Gets It Right the First Time S. 147-154

„… amateurs, whether writ-ing for a high-end magazine or a low-impact personal blog, the chance to redraft is …” „… course.Donald Fry, a scholar and former dean turned journalism writing coach, has defined voice as “the sum of …” „… write professionally or as a hobby professionals or ama-teurs, whether writing for a high-end magazine …”

Chapter 11: Six-Word Headlines, Ten-Point Outlines S. 101-112

„… writing came easily. It helped that the weekend re-mained vivid and fresh. But it also helped that the …” „… headlines and simple outlines can go a long way to-ward streamlining the writing process.The rules of …” „… headline writing are simple enough. Headlines should feed off a dynamic or “active” verb and, obviously …”

Chapter 12: Drafting Fast S. 113-118

„… , underline illuminat-ing details, and earmark important facts. That’s when it is time, as writing coach Don …” „… . “For me and most of the other writers I know, writing is not rapturous,” she writes. “In fact, the only …” „… boldness, creativity, and confidence in writing that has disappeared by the time they get to high school …”

Chapter 7: Reconnaissance S. 57-64

„… merely before they start writing but also before they do their most intense research. The parallel is …” „… Writing Well. “Decide what corner of your subject you’re going to bite off, and be content to cover it …” „… well.”1Identifying and reducing the scale of a writing project begins with the title of this chapter …”

Chapter 5: The Passive Observer at Work S. 35-42

„… writer’s palette that will help color bigger works later on.Before I send my feature-writing students out …” „… , too.)ACTION SHOWS CHARACTERNonfiction writing feeds off of what people do and what those actions say about who …” „… writing muscles. What details show and what merely characterize? Did I choose the right verb? How do I …”

Postscript S. 165-168

„… bring on the resurgence of another lost art in this age of Tweets and Instant Chat: letter writing …” „… visitor at our house. And, of course, I am still writing about her, in blogs that sometimes stay in the …” „… paralyzes my writing process either. She enriches it—along 166 Postscript Postscript 167with my life. I …”

Chapter 10: Bring Back the Breed of the Dog S. 85-100

„… his words must be as honest and accurate as they are dramatic and engaging; that, in writing …” „… the writer can unearth what writing coach Don Fry has called the “gold coins” of reporting, the …” „… , still writing novels and nonfiction about the region’s charms, its cuisine and its people. But Peter …”

Chapter 4: Gathering String S. 25-34

„… clearer. Some writing coaches call this process gathering string.A nonfiction writer’s string can come …” „… , “Why are you here?”Practice is a big part of the craft of observing, research, and writing. The Boston …” „… author writes not of a “donut box” but of a “Krispy Kreme box.” Such specificity anchors writing. It …”

About the Author S. 183

„… department’s first chair from 1999 to 2005. He is the coauthor of two books, Writing and Reporting the News …”

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