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Making Fact Read Like Fiction: A Writer’s Guide to Creative Nonfiction
Do you have a true story to tell? Bring it to life for readers using the storytelling techniques of creative nonfiction. In this workshop, author and writing instructor Dean Jobb will explore how writers can make the truth as compelling as fiction. Write openings that immerse the reader in the story. Reconstruct scenes and events. Create memorable characters. Describe places and lost eras in vivid detail. And learn how to use online research tools and databases to find the facts needed to write unputdownable nonfiction.