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Writing to Change the World

In this very personal writing guide, Pipher talks about the importance of point of view in writing, and she has a definite point of view here
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The Best American Magazine Writing 2001 (Best American Magazine Writing)

In the world of magazines, no recognition is more highly coveted than an “Ellie,” the National Magazine Award presented by the American Society of Magazine Editors to the best of the American magazines. The Awards are the magazine equivalents to the Pulitzer Prizes of the newspaper industry. Each year, hundreds of editors-in-chief, journalism professors, and [...]
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Writing for Story: Craft Secrets of Dramatic Nonfiction

Amazon.com Review One of Ludwig Miës van der Rohe’s favorite aphorisms was that “God is in the details.” Jon Franklin would beg to differ. A pretty turn of phrase is no use at all, says he, if you don’t have a firm structure on which to hang it. Franklin pioneered the field [...]
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From Fact to Fiction: Journalism & Imaginative Writing in America

“I anticipate great value from this text–its scholarship, lucid prose, and particularly the vast gap of ignorance it seeks to fill, will make it a most useful and versatile choice for my course.”–Raymond I. Rundus, Pembroke State University “From Whitman and Twain to Dreiser and Dos Passos, [Fishkin] tracks American literature back to unexpected beginnings [...]
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Shaking a Leg: Journalism and Writing.

An article from: World Literature Today [HTML] (Digital) This digital document is an article from World Literature Today, published by University of Oklahoma on June 22, 1998. The length of the article is 833 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is [...]
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new blood on the old mattress

As with sooo many ill-conceived spontaneous actions, every neurotransmitter in the dense standing-room-only revelry of brain cells, partying like it was 2009, were in agreement. We are all in agreement that they were all in my head during those moments.1 We are all pretty much in agreement that I was not.2 Too much was going on in [...]
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army tanks runneth over with love

When I woke up I could not breathe on my own. It wasn’t for lack of trying. Hoses and wires came and went in and out every conceivable hole in me. Still other holes, the inconceivable ones, oozed and soaked with the rest of me in a not-quite congealed balm, an unnaturally cool suspension in [...]
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