Sentences with phrase «fiction techniques»

What other fiction techniques are used in Born to Run?

For nonfiction, I illustrate how certain fiction techniques can improve the manuscript.

I learned how to pitch my project, start a new project, use fiction techniques to write compelling nonfiction, and work with an editor.

This is why creative nonfiction is successful and popular: it makes the truth real and entertaining through description, dialogue, and other fiction techniques.

LP: But then what came out was a tremendous amount of encouragement to use documentary techniques in fiction films and to use highly stylized fiction techniques in documentary films.

What with all the Twilighting going on lately, we should be thankful that once in a while a film like Easy A comes along: a film that honestly and unwaveringly addresses what it means to be a teenage girl in this image laden, information drenched age, rather than resorting to archaic romance fiction techniques with passive heroines who do nothing but wait for inherently violent men to make all the hard decisions.

Basic Fiction Techniques: The Creative and the Practical (Multiple - session workshop co-taught with New York Times best - selling author Cindy Woodsmall)

Nancy Stohlman is the author of three books of flash fiction, editor of three anthologies of flash fiction, and a prominent instructor of flash fiction techniques; Tara Lynn Masih is the founding editor of Best Small Fictions anthology series and the Field Guide to Writing Flash Fiction; Lynn Mundell is a co-founder of 100 Word Story and 2017 Wigleaf Top 50; and Grant Faulkner is the author of Pep Talks for Writers and the flash collection Fissures.

Which seems like a superficial way to read an essay film that is clearly blending documentary and fiction techniques in the classic Varda tradition and thus inviting viewers to closely interrogate what exactly it is they're watching.

In my last post, I discussed the four C's of basic story structure and how nonfiction authors can use them along with other fiction techniques to entertain and engage their readers while sharing their experiences and message.

It's the intent of Chinese - American filmmaker Chloé Zhao to carve a story out of the real lives of the people she puts on screen; her docu - fiction technique was what distinguished her striking 2015 feature debut Songs My Brothers Taught Me, set among the Lakota Sioux in South Dakota's Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.

For more tips on dialogue, thoughts, and other fiction techniques, check out my book, Fire up Your Fiction — An Editor's Guide to Writing Compelling Stories.