How Writing Fiction Unlocked My Nonfiction Writing
By Elissa Jacobs My memoir was written at sloth-speed. More than a decade from the first words on the page to a full first draft; more than five years beginning from when I “got se...
Search fresh public links, source activity, and ready-to-use post angles for Creative-Nonfiction.
Fresh curated links around creative-nonfiction are collected here so marketers can spot useful updates and turn timely ideas into posts faster.
Recent items include:
Recent curated links from global sources. Generate one free draft from any story, then use SocialBu to schedule and refine your content calendar.
By Elissa Jacobs My memoir was written at sloth-speed. More than a decade from the first words on the page to a full first draft; more than five years beginning from when I “got se...
“For me, the hope was to make a human connection, help the student think creatively, and teach skills that would help not just the current paper, but their future writing as well.”
The object is never the subject. The object is the lens. By Marvin Garbeh Davis, Sr. I did not set out to write a memoir. I set out to write about my stomach. Specifically, the com...
A mother, a son, and the brutal telling that ended usContinue reading on The Narrative Arc »
By Dawn M. Smith When I started writing my memoir about working at The Marine Mammal Center in Northern California in the ‘80s and ‘90s, my goal was to have people vicariously expe...
“I think you have to interpret ‘Write what you know’ much more broadly than that. We’re talking about emotional truth here. We’re talking…Continue reading on Go Into The Story »
My “unstructured play notebook” is like a friend who holds all my secrets. By Chelene Knight I recently asked a room full of nonfiction writers to share an object that held value t...
By Sarah Curtis In the spring of last year, I mailed my father a copy of my manuscript before my publisher sent it to press. Since it was about him, I thought he deserved the final...
I so often find myself inspired not by a specific event, but by a series of news stories, a pattern to conversations I’m having with friends, a rash of films about the same subject...
An introduction from the author “Blue Spark” came about when the incredible writer and editor Jennifer Kabat asked me to contribute to a nonfiction publication she’d started with t...
How We Maintained Our Daily Writers’ Group By Dr. Nancy Glass I was desperate to finish my nonfiction manuscript, frustrated by lack of discipline to write every day, in despair at...
Long before I wrote crime novels, I studied in the perfect setting for one. My Havana middle school was a labyrinth of granite floors, dusty halls, cobweb-filled classrooms and hid...
It doesn’t knock. It seeps through the cracks in the quiet parts of the day, sits beside me like it owns the place.Continue reading on Medium »
By Ethan Gilsdorf I spent the formative years of my childhood with a Super 8 movie camera and, later in high school, in the clunky medium of ¾ inch video, creating DIY claymation...
How does one begin to write about something as all-encompassing as our shared climate? How does one represent our climate’s myriad networks, especially if we are not actively taugh...
It's easy to feel helpless and hopeless in these increasingly complex and uncertain times. But thankfully, I read books. And I find that flipping through the pages of a story is on...
A New Way to Journal.Continue reading on The Story Well »
A composite self-portrait. The post An Accounting. appeared first on Magpie by Jen Shoop.
Writer Mandy Len Catron finally finished a book proposal she began in 2019. A publisher liked it, but was hesitant to proceed because of similar books on the market. Then someone a...
Have you ever considered using your own creative writing as a psychotherapeutic tool much as you might someone else's? It's fascinating and enriches the therapy in unexpected ways.
If you’re writing a Grand Canyon murder mystery, you’ve got to learn every way the Canyon can kill someone. At least, that was my initial perspective when I started working on my n...
An essay can have benefits beyond those that come from publication By Elizabeth Roper Marcus Shortly after taking up writing in my late 40s, I finished a memoir piece I was proud o...
Leena Wilde Ryan walked into her grandmother's funeral relieved to have a break from her writing job. She walked out having delivered what she calls "the best stand-up routine of m...
by Danya Kaufmann I spent a couple weeks in Dharamshala one summer, up in the lush green mountains of Northern India. The village was enveloped by a magical mist, and I was in heav...
Use SocialBu to discover ideas, generate post drafts, and schedule them across your social channels.