Index
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Abbey, Edward, 104
abstract language, 174
Ackerman, Diane, 40
adjective/adverb “purge,” 198
“Adorable Things” (Shōnagon), 130–131
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Twain), 35, 38
“After Yitzl” (Goldbarth), 175
“Afternoon of an American Boy” (White), 10–11
“Against Technique” (Lott), 159
The Age of Missing Information (McKibben), 72–73
agenting approach, in workshop, 206–207
agents, literary, 222
Als, Hilton, 74
Andrew, Elizabeth Jarrett, 195–196
Angela’s Ashes (McCourt), 29
animals, 40–41
Another Bullshit Night in Suck City (Flynn), 142–143
Arsdale, Sarah Van, 35
The Art of the Personal Essay (Lopate), 103, 104, 153
arts, 69–77
moving image, 71–73
music as, 73–74
and “reading narratives,” 74–75
visual, 70–71
Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP), 220, 299, 300
attention to details, 81
Aurelius, Marcus, 103
author bios, 226
autobiographical comics, 131–132
“Backtalk” (Hoffman), 108
Ballering, Zoe, 92–93
Barnes, Kim, 23
Beard, Jo Ann:
and attention to detail, 6, 172–174
and braided form, 127
and dialogue, 176–178
and memory, 8
Beavis, Catherine, 142
“Because, the Ferguson Verdict” (Sukrungruang), 52, 125, 279–281
Bechdel, Alison, 132
Beckett, Samuel, 142
beginnings, 130
“Behind the Screen” (Beard), 6
Bellingham Review, 139, 143, 233
The Best American Essays 2008, 108
Between the World and Me (Coates), 60–61
biographer, stance of a, 25–26
bios, author, 226
Bird, Isabella, 104
Blake, William, 142
blanket-statement dodge, 161–162
blogs, 144–145
“Blood; Quantum” (Geller), 61–62
Bluets (Nelson), 125–126
Bly, Nellie, 104
bodies, 59–67
differences between, 64–65
and gender/sexual identity, 62–64
and race, 60–62
body image, 15–16
The Body of the Dead Christ in the Tomb (painting), 115
book proposals for publication, 224–227
Book View Café, 228
Borich, Barrie Jean, 63
Botany of Desire: A Plant’s-Eye View of the World (Pollan), 80
Bouldrey, Brian, 115
“A Boundary Zone” (Hesse), 105
braided essays, 126–127
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (Kimmerer), 39–40
breadcrumbing, 220–221
breathing, for stress reduction, 293–295
Bresland, John, 115
Brevity (online journal), 61, 122
Brown, Michael, 52
Bucak, A. Papatya, 122
“Buckeye” (Sanders), 12–13
“Burl’s” (Cooper), 184–185
Burroway, Janet, 179
Bush, Vannevar, 144
Byron, George Gordon, 214
Canterbury Tales (Chaucer), 142
Capote, Truman, 141
Castro, Joy, 61
Center for Pacific Northwest Studies (Western Washington University), 90
challenges of creative nonfiction, 151–168
fact vs fiction as, 156–161
pact with reader as, 152–156
protecting oneself as, 161–162
solutions to, 162–164
writing from life as, 152
“A Chapter on Ears” (Lamb), 104
chapter-by-chapter outlines, 225
character development, 175–176
Chaucer, Geoffrey, 142
Chavez, Felicia Rose, 292
The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right (Gawande), 80
“Choom” (Boully), 154–156
Christman, Jill, 40
cinematic scenes, 13–14
Citizen Potawatomi Nation, 39
“The Clan of One-Breasted Women” (Williams), 82–83, 165
Coates, Ta-Nehisi, 60–61
Colbert, Stanley, 212
collage structure, 124–126
collections of essays, 222–223
command voice, 181
competition, 226
complexity, 83–85
consciousness, human, 39
“Consider the Lobster” (Wallace), 109–110
containers, 184–187
Cooper, Bernard:
omission of characters by, 160–161
and point of view, 154–155
and profluence, 184–185
“The Fine Art of Sighing,” 243–244
on writing process, 199
cooperative presses, 228
“The Coroner’s Photographs” (Staples), 25, 185–186, 274–278
Cowley, Abraham, 110
Crazy Brave (Harjo), 141–142
Creative Nonfiction (journal), 86
cross-genre writing, 141–142
“Cubist Mother” (Ross), 123–124
cueing the reader, 162–163
cultural identity, 26–27
Davenport, Guy, 69
de Gutes, Kate Carroll, 64
“Dead Christ” (video essay), 115
Deadpool (film), 163
decentering, 144
Deleuze, Gilles, 144
desk yoga, 294
detail(s):
attention to, 81
specificity and, 173–174
storytelling with, 5–8
dialogue, 176–177
Dickens, Charles, 113
Dickinson, Emily:
on flood subjects, 84
and humor, 187
“Tell all the truth but tell it slant,” v
Didion, Joan:
and collage structure, 125
in essay tradition, 104
on framing, 106
on immersion, 86
and looping essays, 186
and New Journalism, 108–109
and point of view, 154–155
and sensory detail, 9–10
digital literature, 143–144
Dillard, Annie:
and animals, 40–41
and scientific research, 85
disability, as identity, 64–65
discussion, 204–207
dodging, 161–162
Doty, Mark, 62
“A ‘Downwinder’ in Hiroshima” (Williams), 30
Doyle, Brian, 53, 183–184, 245–246
drafting, 194–195
“The Drama Bug” (Sedaris), 187
Duncan, David James, 4–5
earliest memory, 4–5
eBay, 131
Edgeworth, Maria, 104
editing, 231–235
Ehrlich, Gretel, 33
Einstein, Albert, 85
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (Wolfe), 108–109
The Elements of Style (Strunk), 174
Elkin, Stanley, 149
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 38
emotional truth, 158–160
The Empathy Exams (Jamison), 112
Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life (Rosenthal), 129–130
endings, 130
Enter the Dragon (film), 72
“An Entrance to the Woods” (Berry), 42
epistrophe, 183
essays:
braided, 126–127
collage, 124–126
collections of, 222–223
flash, 121–123
“hermit crab,” 127–130
of ideas, 111–112
looping, 185–186
meditative, 110
micro, 123–124
nonce, 130–131
object, 111
personal (see personal essays)
radio, 114
video, 115
Essays (de Montaigne), 103
“essays in disguise” (Plutarch and Seneca), 103
Essays in Idleness (Kenkō), 103
essays of ideas, 111–112
exposition, 170–173
factual truth, 158–160
Faery, Rebecca, 121
Fallaci, Oriana, 88–89
family, 23–32
biographer, stance of a, 25–26
and cultural identity via food, 26–27
issues with writing about, 28
motives for writing about, 30
permission to write about, 28–30
situating yourself in relation to, 24
Family Resemblance: An Anthology and Exploration of Eight Hybrid Literary Genres (eds. Sulak and Kolosov), 142
Faulkner, William, 237
feedback, 204
“Fifty Ways to Be a Brilliant Mom Without Having a Baby” (blog), 145
“The Fine Art of Sighing” (Cooper), 11, 27, 154–155, 243–244
Firebird (Doty), 62
“First” (Van Meter), 62, 179–180, 282–285
first-person narrator, 107
Fisher, M. F. K., 10
flash nonfiction, 121–123
flood subjects, 84
Flynn, Nick, 142–143
food, 26–27
“Forest in the Trees: The Challenges of Shaping a Book (Not a Collection) of Essays” (McClanahan), 223
“A Four-Hundred-Year-Old Woman” (Mukherjee), 36–37
“The Fourth State of Matter” (Beard), 127, 172–173, 177–178
fourth wall, breaking of, 163–164
Fowler, Gene, 194
Fragments: Memories of a Wartime Childhood (Wilkomirski), 159
framing, 106–107
Frankenstein (Shelley), 214
Franzen, Jonathan, 113
Frey, James, 159–160
Friedman, Bonnie, 297
“From Soup to Nuts” (Tandoh), 27
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic (Bechdel), 132
Gawande, Atul, 80
Gay, Roxane, 15
Geller, Danielle, 61–62
gender identity, 62–64
Glass, Ira, 114
global revision, 195
“Go Ahead: Write About Your Parents, Again” (Wilson), 25
Goldbarth, Albert, 175
Goldberg, Natalie, 196
“Goodbye to All That” (Didion), 9–10, 154–155
“Good-Bye to Forty-Eighth Street” (White), 35–36
Gopnik, Adam, 108
Granta (journal), 41
grants, for writers, 300
graphic memoirs, 131–132
The Graywolf Annual 3: Essays, Memoirs and Reflections (ed. Walker), 103
Guattari, Félix, 144
Guggenheim fellowships, 300
Hakala, Marjorie Rose, 41, 88, 247–254
Hamlet, 114
Hampl, Patricia, 157–158
Harjo, Joy, 141–142
Harry Potter series, 212
“Hateful Things” (Shōnagon), 130–131
Hazlitt, William, 104
hearing, sense of, 11
Hemingway, Ernest, 123
“Hereafter in Fields” (Vivian), 110
“hermit crab” essays, 127–130
Hesse, Douglas, 105
Hirshfield, Jane, 291
history, 51–58
as frame for nonfiction, 52–53
and perception, 56
protagonists in, 54–55
Hoffman, Richard, 108
Holbein, Hans, 115
home, writing about, 36–37
House Built on Ashes (Rodríguez), 7
“How to Become a Writer” (Moore), 128
Huber, Sonya, 16
Hughes, Ted, 214
Hugo, Richard, 200
human consciousness, 39
humor, 187
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body (Gay), 15
Hurd, Barbara:
and meditative essays, 110
and research essays, 83–84
and setting, 87–88
“To Keep an Ear to the Ground,” 255–258
hybrid forms, 142–143
hybrid presses, 228
I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death (O’Farrell), 13–14
“I Cannot Explain My Fear” (Bucak), 122
identity:
cultural, 26–27
disability and, 64–65
and early memories, 4
gender/sexual, 62–64
racial, 60–62
illness memoirs, 16–17
image, 179–180
imagination, 157–158
“imagistic endurance,” 5–8
immersion research, 86–87
In Cold Blood (Capote), 141
inadvertent revelations, 129
independent publishers, 227
Indra’s net, 81
Internet, for research, 90–91
“Internet Sabbath,” 295
interrogative voice, 181
interviews, for research, 88–89
intuition, 14–15
“Inventing Peace” (Weschler), 70
Inventing the Truth: The Art and Craft of Memoir (ed. Zinsser), 107–108
The Iowa Review, 164
Istanbul: Memories and the City (Pamuk), 87
“It Wasn’t Enough” (Strong), 114
Iyer, Pico, 43
Jamison, Leslie, 112
Jane Eyre (Brontë), 35
Johnson, Jenny, 5
JSTOR, 90–91
“Jumping the Fence” (Hakala), 41, 88, 247–254
Just Breathe Normally (Shumaker), 224
“Just This Once” (Shumaker), 224
Kabat-Zinn, Jon, 293
Karr, Mary, 163–164
Keller, Helen, 9
Kenkō, 103
Kennedy, John, 123
Kesey, Ken, 109
Khan Academy, 91
Khomeini, Ayatollah, 89
Kimmerer, Robin Wall, 39–40, 42
King, Susan, 140
King Lear (Shakespeare), 142
Kingston, Maxine Hong, 113–114
Kitchen, Judith:
and character development, 175
on hybrid form, 142
and point of view, 178
on publishing, 231
Klaus, Carl, 126
“The Knife” (Selzer), 171–172
Knopp, Lisa, 162
Kotre, John, 4
Koul, Scaachi, 26–27
Kuusisto, Stephen, 59
Lamb, Charles, 104
Lamott, Anne, 187
Lannan Foundation, 300
Le Guin, Ursula K., 228
“Leap” (Doyle), 53, 183–184, 245–246
“Leaves from the Mental Portfolio of a Eurasian,” 54–55
Lectio Divina, 296
Lejeune, Philippe, 153
LeMay, Eric, 143
Lenney, Dinah, 111
Letters Like the Day: On Reading Georgia O’Keeffe (Sinor), 75
Levy, David, 295
The Liar’s Club (Karr), 163–164
libraries, 89–90
The Lifespan of a Fact (D’Agata), 153
Listening to the Savage: River Notes and Half-Heard Melodies (Hurd), 83–84
literary agents, 222
literary journalism, 108–110
literary journals, 218–219
LitLine (website), 220
“Living Like Weasels” (Dillard), 40–41
Living Revision: A Writer’s Craft as Spiritual Practice (Andrew), 195–196
looping essays, 185–186
Lopate, Phillip, 103, 104, 153
Lott, Bret, 159
Lying: A Metaphorical Memoir (Slater), 163
Madden, Patrick, 131
The Made-Up Self: Impersonation in the Personal Essay (Klaus), 126
Mailer, Norman, 108–109
main clause, 176
Mairs, Nancy, 64–65
“Man and Boy” (Sutin), 139, 175
Maps to Anywhere (Cooper), 160
Margolick, David, 74
marketing, 226–227
“Marketing Memory” (Cooper), 160–161
Martone, Michael, 131
“Math 1619” (Wallace), 62, 128–129, 286–289
Maus I (Spiegelman), 131–132
Maus II (Spiegelman), 131–132
McClanahan, Rebecca, 223
McCourt, Frank, 29
McKibben, Bill, 72–73
mechanics of personal essays, 105
Meditations (Aurelius), 103
meditative essays, 110
“Memoir? Fiction? Where’s the Line?” (Schwartz), 158–159
memoirs, 107–108
memory, 3–22
and body image, 15–16
earliest, 4–5
and illness memoirs, 16–17
and imagination, 157–158
and “imagistic endurance,” 5–8
metaphorical, 8
muscle, 8–9
senses of, 9–15
“Memory and Imagination” (Hampl), 157–158
“The Mental Load: Honoring Your Story Over Your To-Do List” (Chavez), 292
metaphorical memory, 8
“Michael Martone’s Leftover Water” (Madden), 131
micro essays, 123–124
A Million Little Pieces (Frey), 159–160
Mindful Tech: How to Bring Balance to Our Digital Lives (Levy), 295
Mindfulness for Beginners (Kabat-Zinn), 293
Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), 293
mixed media, 137–147
blogs/social media as, 144–145
cross-genre writing as, 141–142
digital literature as, 143–144
hybrid form as, 142–143
scope of, 137–140
Momaday, N. Scott, 3
moments of transition, 293–294
money, as resource, 300
Montaigne, Michel de:
in essay tradition, 103–104
“Of Smells,” 259–261
Moore, Lorrie, 128
Morábito, Fabio, 111
The Moth: True Stories Told Live (radio show), 114
Mount Baker, 34
moving image arts, 71–73
Mrs. Dalloway (Woolf), 181–182
Mukherjee, Bharati, 36–37
muscle memory, 8–9
music, 73–74
My Lesbian Husband: Landscapes of a Marriage (Borich), 63
Nabokov, Vladimir, 193
NaMeWriMo (National Memoir Writing Month), 215
Nan A. Talese, 159
NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), 215
NaPoWriMo (National Poetry Writing Month), 215
National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), 300
nature writing, 37–42
Nelson, Maggie, 125–126
New Journalism, 108–110
New Pages (website), 220
Nguyen, Beth, 205
“The Night My Mother Met Bruce Lee” (Rekdal), 26, 62, 72, 270–273
“No Name Woman” (Kingston), 113–114
Nola: A Memoir of Faith, Art, and Madness (Hemley), 153
nonce forms, 130–131
The Noonday Demon (Solomon), 109
The Normal School (magazine), 71
“Notes of a Native Son” (Baldwin), 56, 112
“Nuns Fret Not at Their Convent’s Narrow Room” (Wordsworth), 121
object essays, 111
“Object Lessons” (Bloomsbury Books), 111
The Object Parade (Lenney), 111
“Of Greatness” (Cowley), 110
“Of Smells” (Montaigne), 10, 259–261
O’Farrell, Maggie, 13–14
On Autobiography (Lejeune), 153
“On Being a Cripple” (Mairs), 65
“On the Pleasure of Hating” (Hazlitt), 104
“On Touching Ground” (Parms), 71, 126–127, 262–268
online journals, 219
Oprah’s Book Club, 159
outlines, chapter-by-chapter, 225
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void (Roach), 86
“The Pain Scale” (Biss), 129
Pain Woman Takes Your Keys, and Other Essays from a Nervous System (Huber), 16
Pamuk, Orhan, 87
Paper Lion (Plimpton), 86
Paris Review, 86
Parker, Dorothy, 182
Parms, Jericho, 71, 126–127, 262–268
participatory research, 86–89
“The Pat Boone Fan Club” (Silverman), 74
“People Are Starving” (Rivecca), 15, 178–179
“Perdition” (Radtke), 14, 131, 269
“perhapsing,” 162
“Perhapsing: The Use of Speculation in Creative Nonfiction” (Knopp), 162
personal essay(s):
essays of ideas as, 111–112
meditative essays as, 110
memoirs as, 107–108
New Journalism as, 108–110
object essays as, 111
radio essays as, 114
sketches/portraits as, 113–114
video essays as, 115
personal essays, 101–117
forms of, 102
framing in, 106–107
mechanics of, 105
tradition of, 103–104, 107–114
personality, 106
perspective, 165
Petrie, Lindsay, 180
photography, 106
pitfalls of creative nonfiction, 164–166
place-based research, 87–88
Plath, Sylvia, 214
Plimpton, George, 86
Plutarch, 103
poetry, 181–184
Poets & Writers magazine, 299, 300
point of view, 177–179
Polidori, John William, 214
Pollan, Michael, 80
pop-culture references, 72
porosity, 81
portraits, 113–114
A Postcard Memoir (Sutin), 71, 139–140
practices, 292–298
of mind and body, 293-295
of reading, 295-296
of writing, 297-298
A Prairie Home Companion (radio show), 114
present tense, 5–6
primary sources, 91–92
privileged observers, 54
profluence, 184
pronouns, 177–179
proofreading, 234
prose, 197–200
protagonists, 54–55
publication, 217–230
book proposals for, 224–227
of books, 222–227
breadcrumbing, 220
literary agents in, 222
researching, 220–221
self-directed, 227–228
in small presses, 227
submission for, 221–222
targeting work toward, 220
venues for, 218–219
PubMed, 90
Pulitzer Prize, 131–132
the “punch” (end words), 198–199
Purpura, Lia, 297
racial identity, 60–62
radio essays, 114
Rambo (film), 43
reading as a writer, 239-241, 296
reading, practices of, 295–296
“Reading History to My Mother” (Hemley), 24, 29
“reading narratives,” 74–75
Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place (Williams), 82–83
Rekdal, Paisley:
and family, 28
and imagination, 25–26
“The Night My Mother Met Bruce Lee,” 270–273
and pop-culture references, 72
and race, 62
Remembrance of Things Past (Proust), 9, 75
representative scenes, 172–173
research, 79–97
attention to detail in, 81
developing skills for, 89–92
escalating complexity in, 83–85
immersion, 86–87
interviews as, 88–89
of key events, 82–83
metaphors in, 82
participatory, 86–89
place-based, 87–88
research maps, 92–94
scientific/technical, 85
in topical nonfiction, 80–81
retreats, for writers, 299
“revenge prose,” 164–166
revision, 195–200
rhythm, 181–184
Rodríguez, José Antonio, 7, 8, 12
Rona Jaffe Award, 300
Roosevelt, Franklin, 123
Rose, Phyllis, 74–75
Rose Metal Press, 142
Rosenthal, Amy Krouse, 129–130
Ross, Michelle, 123–124
Rowling, J. K., 212
Safekeeping: Some True Stories from a Life (Thomas), 164
Salon magazine, 132
Sand, George, 54
Sanders, Scott Russell, ix, 12–13
SASE (self-addressed stamped envelope), 221–222
Savarese, Ralph James, 59
“search and destroy” (to be verbs), 197-198
scientific research, 85
Sedaris, David, 187
self-directed publication, 227–228
Self-Publishing Review, 228
Selzer, Richard, 171–173, 176, 177
Seneca Review, x, 121
Seneca the Younger, 103
senses, 9–15
September 11 terrorist attacks, 113, 183
setting(s):
as characters, 35–36
home as, 36–37
nature as, 37–42
settings, 33–49
and travel writing, 42–44
witnesses of, 44–45
sexual identity, 62–64
Shakespeare, William, 114, 142, 187
Shapes of Native Nonfiction (eds. Warburton and Washuta), 102
Shelley, Mary, 214
Shelley, Percy, 214
“shocks of memory,” 5, 108, 173
“A Short Essay on Being” (Boully), 55
Shumaker, Peggy, 224
sight, sense of, 13–14
Silverman, Sue William, 74
Sin Far, Sui, 54–55
Sinor, Jennifer, 75
“Sir, Ma’am, Sir: Gender Fragments” (de Gutes), 64
The Situation and the Story (Gornick), 107
“sixth” sense, 14–15
Six-Word Memoirs (journal), 123
sketches, 113–114
Slater, Lauren, 163
“The Sloth” (Christman), 40
“Slouching Towards Bethlehem” (Didion), 125
small presses, 227
smell, sense of, 9–10
The Smoking Gun (website), 159
social media, 144–145
Solomon, Andrew, 109
specific scenes, 172–173
specificity, 173–174
Spiegelman, Art, 131–132
Stafford, Kim, 297
Stallone, Sylvester, 43
Staples, Blake, 186
Staples, Brent, 25, 185–186, 274–278
Staring Back: The Disability Experience from Inside Out (Fries), 64
Stegner, Wallace, 106
Stieglitz, Alfred, 75
The Story of World War II’s Heroic Army of Deception (Gerard), 224
Strange Fruit: The Biography of a Song (Margolick and Als), 74
“Street Haunting” (Woolf), 186
Strong, Charlene, 114
structures, 184–187
Strunk, William Jr., 174
subjectivity, 207
Submittable (online submission manager), 220
Sukrungruang, Ira:
“Because, the Ferguson Verdict,” 279–281
and collage structure, 62, 125
and formative moments, 52
on race, 61
Sutin, Lawrence, 71, 137, 139–140, 175
Swallow: Foreign Bodies, Their Ingestion, Inspiration, and the Curious Doctor Who Extracted Them (Cappello), 80–81
“Swimming Pool Hedonist,” 82
syntactic symbolism, 182
taglines, 162
Talese, Gay, 108–109
Tandoh, Ruby, 27
taste, sense of, 10–11
technical research, 85
technology, dealing with, 295
TED talks, 91
Textbook (Rosenthal), 129–130
Thelma and Louise (film), 73
themes, 130
“therapist’s couch prose,” 164–166
“There’s No Recipe for Growing Up” (Koul), 26–27
“A Thing Shared” (Fisher), 10
“Things of This Life” (Kitchen), 175, 178
This American Life (radio show), 114
Thomas, Abigail, 164
Thoreau, Henry David, 37–40, 104
time, as resource, 299
“Time and Distance Overcome” (Biss), 154–156
titles, 123
“To Keep an Ear to the Ground” (Hurd), 40, 83–84, 87–88, 110, 255–258
Toolbox (Morábito), 111
topical nonfiction, 80–81
touch, sense of, 12–13
tradition of personal essays, 103–104, 107–114
transcendentalists, 38
transition, moments of, 293–294
travel writing, 42–44
Treading the Maze: An Artist’s Book of Daze (King), 140
Triquarterly (journal), 115
Trueblood, Kate, 213
truth, 155–161
Truth Serum (Cooper), 160
The Vampyre (Polidori), 214
Van Meter, Ryan, 5, 62, 179–180, 282–285
venues for publication, 218–219
Vermeer, Johannes, 70
video essays, 115
Video Night in Kathmandu (Iyer), 43
virtual retreats, 299
visual arts, 70–71
Vivian, Robert, 110
Walden; or, Life in the Woods (Thoreau), 38, 104
Wallace, David Foster, 109–110
Wallace, Gwendolyn, 62, 128–129, 286–289
Warburton, Theresa, 102
Washuta, Elissa, 102
Weschler, Lawrence, 70–71
Western Washington University, xi, 233
Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs (Stegner), 106
Whetham, Jen, 82
White, E. B., 10–11, 35–36, 126
White Gloves: How We Create Ourselves Through Memory (Kotre), 4
Whiting Foundation, 300
whole truth, 160–161
Wilkomirski, Binjamin, 159
Williams, Terry Tempest, 30, 82–83, 165
Wilson, Tarn, 25
Winfrey, Oprah, 159–160
Winterson, Jeanette, 99
witness, stance of, 30, 44–45, 53–54, 183, 253
Woolf, Virginia, 5, 181–182, 186
Wordsworth, William, 121
“The World as I See It” (Einstein), 85
“Writing About Family: Is It Worth It?” (Schwartz), 29
writing communities, 203–216
checklist for, 210–212
creating, 212–213
discussion in, 204–207
feedback in, 204
guidelines for, 208–209
small vs. large, 209
as writing practice, 214–215
“Writing Daily, Writing in Tune” (Stafford), 297
Writing Fiction (Burroway), 179
writing from life, 152
Writing Past Dark (Friedman), 297
writing practice, 214–215
writing process, 193–201
drafting in, 194–195
revision in, 195–200
writing skills, 169–191
in character development, 175–176
in dialogue, 176–177
in humor, 187
in image/metaphor, 179–180
and point of view, 177–179
in rhythm, 181–184
in scene/exposition, 170–173
in specificity/detail, 173–174
in structures/containers, 184–187
The Year of Reading Proust: A Memoir in Real Time (Rose), 75
Yee, Rodney, 294
yoga, desk, 294
YouTube, 71
Zinsser, William, 107–108