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Storycraft, Second Edition: The Complete Guide to Writing Narrative Nonfiction (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing) Second Edition, Kindle Edition
In this new edition, Hart has expanded the book’s range to delve into podcasting and has incorporated new insights from recent research into storytelling and the brain. He has also added dozens of new examples that illustrate effective narrative nonfiction.
This edition of Storycraft is also paired with Wordcraft, a new incarnation of Hart’s earlier book A Writer’s Coach, now also available from Chicago.
- ISBN-13978-0226736921
- EditionSecond
- PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press
- Publication dateApril 8, 2021
- LanguageEnglish
- File size1493 KB
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Jack Hart is to writing coaches as Bill Belichick is to football coaches: the best of all time. In Storycraft he shares what he’s learned over a lifetime of working with writers on non-fiction narratives that won nearly every major journalism prize including the Pulitzer. -- Bruce DeSilva, former Associated Press writing coach
“Jack Hart was hands-down the best narrative editor ever to work in newspapers.” -- Jon Franklin, two-time Pulitzer-Prize winner
"Jack Hart is one of the country's foremost writing coaches. Generations of writers found their voices, found their stories, found their heroes, heroines and villains in the news. Under his leadership the whole news industry learned a new way of connecting with its readers. I know I did. The lessons he teaches are about storytelling, structuring, pacing, tension and conflict.These lessons are perhaps even more important now in a digital age that sometimes forgets that—without a story to tell—words, videos, graphs, graphics, emails, alerts and news bulletins are just so much noise." -- Amanda Bennett, Pulitzer Prize-winning author, investigative journalist, and editor
“When I think back on what I have learned about storytelling over the last 30 years, the trail of memory leads back time and again to Jack Hart. No one has done more to inspire better narrative writing in America.” -- Roy Peter Clark, author of Writing Tools
"It’s no small feat to make the best better. Yet Jack Hart does just that with the updated version of Storycraft. Of the scores of journalism books on my shelves, Hart’s work is among the most essential. He puts language and structure behind the mysterious process of writing, with examples that give any journalist—from student to award-winning—work to aspire to. If you’re looking for a guide that is as useful as it is inspirational, this is it." -- Jacqui Banaszynski, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist
"Instructive and essential, reading Storycraft is like finding the secret set of blueprints to the writer's craft. Better still, it is engaging, funny, and wise—wonderful to read and wonderful to learn from." -- Susan Orlean, Author of The Orchid Thief and The Library Book
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- ASIN : B08SLBTGB2
- Publisher : University of Chicago Press; Second edition (April 8, 2021)
- Publication date : April 8, 2021
- Language : English
- File size : 1493 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Print length : 286 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: #161,665 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #18 in Nonfiction Writing Reference
- #23 in Journalism Writing Reference (Kindle Store)
- #66 in Authorship
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About the author
Jack Hart, a former managing editor at The Oregonian, is an independent author, editor, and writing coach. He holds a University of Wisconsin doctorate in mass communication has taught at six universities, including the University of Oregon, where he was also acting dean at the University of Oregon’s School of Journalism and Communication and interim director of the school’s Turnbull Center. He has edited all or part of four Pulitzer winners and winners of every other major national feature-writing award. His books include The Information Empire, A Writer’s Coach, Storycraft, and the novel Skookum Summer.
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Customers find the book provides an accessible and comprehensive guide to writing narrative nonfiction. They appreciate the lucid explanations of storytelling techniques and the excellent organization of topics. The book offers a serious yet approachable introduction to creative nonfiction storytelling.
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Customers appreciate the book's content. They find it thorough, with good insights and helpful quips from a variety of authors. The book is described as an accessible and enjoyable guide to ethnography.
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Customers find the book's narrative style approachable and lucid. They appreciate the clear explanation of storytelling process in the genres of podcasts and documentary storytelling. The book provides an excellent organization of topics, addressing all key elements with examples. It is written with an encouraging tone and readable throughout.
"A gratifyingly lucid description of the process of story telling in the genre of narrative nonfiction, addressing all the key elements with examples..." Read more
"Tells it like it is with real world writing examples for aspiring non-fiction writers...." Read more
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- Reviewed in the United States on November 21, 2024A gratifyingly lucid description of the process of story telling in the genre of narrative nonfiction, addressing all the key elements with examples and written with such an encouraging tone that it makes you want to stop reading and start writing.
- Reviewed in the United States on February 13, 2024Tells it like it is with real world writing examples for aspiring non-fiction writers. Really makes you think about how you're writing narrative and avoid veering into cliche, hyperbole or inaccuracy while helping you think of your writing the way a fiction writer does. Outstanding.
- Reviewed in the United States on December 13, 2022If I edited the book, I would cut 12th grade level prose and needless repetition. I would get a little more practical and include more structure diagrams. Nonetheless, thank you for a very helpful work.
- Reviewed in the United States on March 28, 2024This book really made a difference for me, in pointing out exactly what I'm not doing in my own narrative nonfiction writing, and what I need to do to improve it. I highly recommend this, even to writers who have been in the working world for a long time (like me).
- Reviewed in the United States on April 1, 2023I don’t know what to do about reordering this book if all the second edition is missing pages. I have heard the first edition is very good.
- Reviewed in the United States on June 12, 2021A serious, approachable, unpatronizing entree to writing creative/narrative nonfiction. Chock full of good insights and helpful quips from a wide variety of authors. Love the wide range of applicable examples given that takes into account new media such as podcast and documentary storytelling. The best, most thorough, and approachable book I've read on this subject--having read quite a few.
- Reviewed in the United States on August 28, 2022Jack Hart is one of the best and his revised Story Craft is still a go-to book for writers.
- Reviewed in the United States on May 3, 2021Worth a daily read, chapter by chapter.
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- Maxim BagnellReviewed in Canada on January 5, 2025
5.0 out of 5 stars its a book
cool book. has pages and a cover
- QfedorReviewed in Canada on May 27, 2023
5.0 out of 5 stars Great look at crafting a story
Great information to help strengthen your writing.