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Complete Fiction

Behind the scenes of a globe-spanning career in freelance journalism A Crooked Line celebrates an age when print journalism changed lives and made the world a better place. That era may be winding down, but this perceptive book makes the case for why incisive writing will always matter. Over the course of his 40-year career, Michael Shapiro has reported from more than 20 countries, writing for National Geographic, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times and many other top publications. But the itinerant writer’s life, while rewarding, has never been easy.&nbsp; &nbsp; Shapiro worked as an investigative reporter and staff writer for San Francisco Bay Area newspapers before letting go of a regular paycheck and setting out to share stories of people and places worldwide. The exhilarations of the open road, “afoot and light-hearted” as Whitman wrote, were tempered by the challenges of freelancing, from making a living to working with heavy-handed editors. &nbsp; His stories put people first: For a feature about Puerto Rico’s recovery after Hurricane Maria, he visited farmers who spoke of shifting from exporting produce to growing food for local people. His profile of a Yosemite photographer, who climbed Half Dome after being diagnosed with cancer, brought the man’s big-hearted humanity to the fore.&nbsp;Shapiro is known as a travel writer, but his work goes far beyond global dispatches. In this book he shares stories of: <ul><li>saving Sunset magazine’s priceless archive of Western life (including photos made by Ansel Adams) after Time Inc. told staffers to toss everything into a dumpster</li><li>an investigation into the U.S. government’s attempt to conceal the circumstances of pro football star and soldier Pat Tillman’s death during the war in Afghanistan</li><li>writing a tribute about environmental hero Jane Goodall just hours after she died</li><li>how the Grateful Dead’s ecstatic songs celebrate the wonders of nature.</li></ul>Several chapters cover themes familiar to journalists and others who work for themselves. Among them: collaboration, independence, rejection and compensation. A glossary defines insider journalism terms such as hed, dek, slug, lede, nut graf, and kill fee.&nbsp; &nbsp; Renowned for his books of conversations with writers and artists, A Sense of Place and The Creative Spark, Shapiro has interviewed David Sedaris, Amy Tan, Smokey Robinson, Joan Rivers, Frances Mayes and Peter Matthiessen. In this volume, he tells the story of how he convinced a reluctant Paul Theroux to agree to an interview and shares an in-depth dialogue with poet and philosopher David Whyte. Getting an interview and executing it well is the work of a diplomat, and there aren't many people who can do it. Shapiro is a pro at it—which this book shows. A Crooked Line&nbsp;highlights Shapiro’s best journalism and includes behind-the-scenes anecdotes about how he pitched stories and got assignments worldwide. Postscripts detail what happened afterward; some include letters from people he wrote about, sharing what his coverage meant to them.&nbsp; After his story about Welsh bard Dylan Thomas was published in The Washington Post, Shapiro received a handwritten letter from a former customs official who said he had admitted Thomas into the United States on the fateful 1953 trip from which the poet would never return. Months after the Yosemite photographer succumbed to cancer, his widow wrote a heartfelt email to Shapiro telling him that his writing made her feel she was “spending time with Kirk again.” &nbsp; Due to the dramatic changes in the journalistic landscape, a career like Shapiro’s couldn’t begin today. Yet the skills he honed as a journalist—empathetic listening, concise and evocative writing, and a keen sense of what matters—remain as relevant as ever. The tales and insights in A Crooked Line provide a timely affirmation of journalism’s enduring power to illuminate the human experience. This penetrating book reminds us that whatever life path we choose, it’s vital to make it our own.

A Writer's Life in Freelance Journalism

A Crooked Line

Nine Ways: Writing Masterful Fiction and Memoir propels authors into the heart of their creative process.&nbsp;In her Nine Ways approach, Christine provides a Master Class Juggling framework of nine essential story elements. Looking through her shared lens using her illustrated Mindmap, writers are invited to evaluate their work from nine perspectives.: Gatekeepers and Story Seeds, Voice, Style and Point of View; Whole Body Characters; Presence of Place; Tension &amp; Plot; Time &amp; Consciousness; Love &amp; Other Emotions; Image and the Senses, Theme &amp; Gestalt.Craft discussions in each of these nine elements with examples from masterful authors put the writing mind in play. Nine Ways&nbsp;stimulates imaginative thinking and hones masterful skills. Wherever you are in your writing practice, this book will help you fulfill your intentions, transform your stories, and continue to elevate your practice and career.

A Guide to Fiction and Memoir

Nine Ways to Masterful Writing

Bloomsbury Spectres, Hauntings and Horrors

Exploring current debates in creative writing about the borders between fiction and creative nonfiction, this collection of essays draws on concepts of the uncanny and hauntology to challenge, subvert and transgress the boundary between forms. Hauntology, as originally defined by Derrida, challenges the certainties of ontology, in a similar way to debates about truth in creative nonfiction; by bringing together authors that undermine the fiction/nonfiction binary, Haunted Writing considers the ways in which real events and experiences haunt writers as they craft their work. Offering insight into how the past - both personal and historical - is experienced and understood in the present, this book includes writing from a diverse group of established and emerging authors who situate their work on genre boundaries and discuss their own creative practice to show how their writing 'haunts' real events. With essays covering a range of ideas from subjectivity, intersectionality and challenging dominant versions of history, to braiding personal and researched stories, playfulness, experimentation and creating stories from archival documents, this beautifully written collection intervenes in contemporary discussions in creative writing and culture surrounding ownership, appropriation and ethics. Bringing a fresh voice and new perspectives to ever-present questions within creative writing, Haunted Writing uncovers how the past is a spectre that disrupts contemporary writing.

Storytelling from the Borders of Fiction and Nonfiction

Haunted Writing

Canons

A spare volume that bursts with insight by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Dillard, illuminating the creative process and the trials of a writer's life

The Writing Life

From the author of the multimillion bestselling THE ARTISTS WAY and WATKINS TOP 100 MOST SPIRITUALLY INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE OF 2026 'Cameron is a veteran of the modern self-care movement' THE NEW YORK TIMES 'Discover the true meaning of prosperity and abundance in this uplifting and beneficial guide' PUBLISHERS WEEKLY Create a sense of security and wealth in your life by applying Julia Cameron's worldwide renowned Artist's Way techniques to the topic of prosperity. How do we keep a roof over our head without losing sight of our soul? And how can we meaningfully follow our passions and seek community in a fast-paced world? In this dynamic creative renewal programme, the celebrated author of The Artist's Way draws on decades of experience to confront the vulnerabilities of modern life. Granting readers courage to reflect on how our values are grounded in our art, Cameron offers tools, insights and prompts to help us tune into our inner wisdom and achieve spiritual fulfilment alongside creative purpose. Guiding us back to prosperity, this generous volume places us on track pursue our true passions and live in abundance.

Creating a Life of Enough

The Prosperous Heart

The Creativity Handbook for Everyone

Tradd Street Press

Short-Story Technique

MICROCOSM PUBLISHING

Do you have a passion that you want to obsess about in a love letter to the world? In this new edition of Microcosm's popular DIY guide to zine-making, Joe Biel updates the information provided in the first edition (edited by Biel and the late and great Bill Brent) to address zine making in today's digital and social-media-obsessed world. Covering all the bases for beginners, Make a Zine! hits on more advanced topics like Creative Commons licenses, legality, and sustainability. Says Feminist Review, "Make a Zine! is an inspiring, easy, and digestible read for anyone, whether you're already immersed in a cut-and-paste world, a graphic designer with a penchant for radical thought, or a newbie trying to find the best way to make yourself and your ideas known." Illustrated by an army of notable and soon-to-be-notable artists and cartoonists, Make a Zine! also takes a look at the burgeoning indie comix scene, with a solid and comprehensive chapter by punk illustrator Fly (Slug and Lettuce, Peops). Part history lesson, part how-to guide, Make a Zine! is a call to arms, an ecstatic, positive rally cry in the face of TV show book clubs and bestsellers by celebrity chefs. As says Biel in the book's intro, "Let's go!"

Start Your Own Underground Publishing Revolution (5th Edition)

Make a Zine!

Creative Writing Curiosity: Ten Essays on the Curious and Writerly is a lively collection examining how curiosity informs, shapes, deepens and empowers creative writing. Across ten varied essays the collection explores curiosity as stimulus, as guide, as teacher, companion or provocateur. Sometimes initiating, sometimes encouraging deeper thinking and greater imagining, and often the impetus, curiosity is shown as innate and routinely engaged with uncertainty. It is from our desire to know, the questioning that our curiosity entails, that creative writing emerges. Ultimately, it is shown that curiosity is manifest not only in what we write creatively but in how we go about writing it.

Ten Essays on the Curious and the Writerly Volume 1

Creative Writing Curiosity

An invaluable aid for writers and other innovators seeking to envision and attract their inspired dreams.A writing practice isn’t static—it ebbs and flows. In times when it feels small and tight, or doesn’t match the vision in our heads, Write Free&nbsp;offers new ways to help our endeavors—and our souls—breathe and expand.Equal parts writer’s workshop and creative journey, this open-hearted guide shows writers and other artists how to ease into positive, fruitful practices. Based on a time-tested principle and using methods developed by the authors, Write Free provides a wealth of tools and examples to feed our wild imaginations.&nbsp;Write Free&nbsp;is an invaluable aid for writers and other innovators seeking to envision and attract their inspired dreams. Now in its third edition, authors have expanded the introduction and other parts of the book, providing a fresh modern day take on the writing process.

Write Free

Verbs are the underrated stars of the English language. They hold it all together. A complete sentence cannot exist without one, yet a single verb can create complete meaning. (See?) In this glittering exploration of language, grammar, and style, Sarah L. Kaufman illuminates how all of us, professional writers and enthusiasts alike, can master the art of the verb. When she was the dance critic at The Washington Post, Kaufman was challenged to translate the dynamic language of movement into words. Verbs showed her the way. Good verbs power great storytelling; they leap off the page, fire our senses, and transform our perceptions. Verb Your Enthusiasm is a clarion call for all of us to get back to basics: to mean what we say and say what we mean. Kaufman proves how strong verbs can make your own writing ­- be it an email, a text, a report, or an ad - more efficient and effective, and she investigates theories of language that will change how you read and write. But this isn't a grammar guide, and it surely isn't a set of rules. Great writing comes from a mix of inspiration, passion, and intelligence-from your unique discernment and imagination. You'll refine your voice in the company of literary greats, including F. Scott Fitzgerald, Virginia Woolf and George Orwell. In the end, your quest for the right verb might even reveal something true about yourself. All that in a word. So go. Write. Breathe life into your world.

How to Master the Art of the Verb and Transform Your Writing

Verb Your Enthusiasm

Protocols for Eco-creative Inquiry & Ground Sense

THE WAYS OF THE ECO-SENSER

Complete Fiction

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