Winding Roads Exercises in Writing Creative Nonfiction

Written by an award-winning author and Fulbright Scholar,Winding Roads: Exercises in Writing Creative Nonfiction,a new first edition,offers exciting and challenging exercises to help focus your creative nonfiction writing. The numerous exercises set simple tasks, enabling you to practice your technique and develop your existing skills. The author believes that the greatest question you will face as a writer is how you cast or shape your piece. Thus, the process of beginning with small pieces that allow you to progress to larger endeavors makes writing easier to manage and helps you learn to isolate each element of your piece. Active lessons with prompts will have you writing day after day. Other titles written by Diane Thiel includeCrossroads: Creative Writing in Four GenresandOpen Roads: Exercises in Writing Poetry. You may purchase copies by going to http://www.mypearsonstore.com . WHAT YOU'LL FIND IN THIS EDITION An extensive anthology of essays serves as models for your own writing. Text includes a very strong section on revision, helping you to consider alternative ways of shaping your essay. Numerous exercises address each element of writing creative nonfiction separately, helping you to understand all the elements included in creating an effective piece of writing. Various approaches to writing creative nonfiction are clearly examined, followed by extensive practice of each specific technique. Visit us at www.ablongman.comThiel, Diane is the author of 'Winding Roads Exercises in Writing Creative Nonfiction', published 2007 under ISBN 9780321429896 and ISBN 0321429893.