For our the last meeting of my nonfiction workshop, we were asked to write a 4-5 page overview/summary of our book projects, as if we were putting together a full book proposal. For those of you unfamiliar with nonfiction book proposals, the overview would serve as the first intro into the book and the proposal [...]
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-In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex,” by Nathaniel Philbrick…I wasn’t very excited about this thick bit of historical nonfiction, as I don’t usually go for stories about boats, ships, whaling, etc. But this was a pretty riveting and amazingly researched book, read for my nonfiction workshop. I now have [...]
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I submitted a travel essay to the New York Times travel section today. I’m fairly certain it was a pointless gesture, but it felt good to do anyway. It was a piece for the back-page essay. I’d post it on my site, but I have gotten a little more protective of my writing [...]
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