Chance Particulars: A Writer's Field Notebook for Travelers, Bloggers, Essayists, Memoirists, Novelists, Journalists, Adventurers, Natural

by Sara Mansfield Taber

Book Overview

An essential guide for writers on how to record and use rich detail to enliven their work.

The goal of the writer is to live with the keenness of the foreigner. To experience, wide-eyed, the sensations aroused and the events offered up by peculiar surrounds and then to evoke them so brightly on the page that the reader, too, experiences the foreigner's frisson. A time-honored way this is accomplished is through the keeping of a field...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421425084
• ISBN13: 9781421425085
• Release Date: March 2018
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 8.9"