Writing Creative Nonfiction

Explore the entire process of writing creative nonfiction, from brainstorming for the perfect idea to getting your final product noticed by literary agents and publishers.

• By This Professor
• 01: Welcome to Creative Nonfiction
• 02: Finding the Story
• 03: Honoring the Nonfiction Contract
• 04: Writing Great Beginnings
• 05: Show, Don't Tell
• 06: Launching a Narrative Arc
• 07: Cliffhangers and Page Turners
• 08: Building Dramatic Sentences
• 09: Rhetorical Devices and Emotional Impact
• 10: Putting It All Together
• 11: Revealing Character in Words and Actions
• 12: Creating Compelling Characters
• 13: Character Psychology
• 14: Getting Inside the Heads of Your Characters
• 15: Using Narrative Perspective
• 16: Shaping Your Voice
• 17: Writing the Gutter-How to Not Tell a Story
• 18: Dialogue Strategies in Creative Nonfiction
• 19: Researching Creative Nonfiction
• 20: How to Not Have People Hate You
• 21: Revising Your Work
• 22: Building Your Audience
• 23: Getting Published
• 24: Being a Writer