Name: Writing for Story
ISBN: 9780452272958

Jon Franklin

Jon Franklin, an undisputed master of the great American nonfiction short story, shares the secrets of his success. This lively, easy-to-follow guide combines readability and excitement with the best of expository prose and illuminates the techniques that beginning journalists will find to be immensely helpful.

Craft Secrets of Dramatic Nonfiction by a Two-time Pulitzer Prize Winner

Writing for Story

Andrea Badgley

This book slipped into my writing bag when I needed it most - when, frustrated by my inability to find the story in my stories, I decided to begin a self-directed apprenticeship. In this book, Jon Franklin lasered instantly on the problem with my writing: I rarely identified my conflict or resolution, even to myself, and my "stories" therefore had no central core to which every sentence would be magnetized. In other words, I did not structure.

Franklin's book is clear and almost clinical, which is exactly what I need at this point in my writing career. I blushed with every mark of the amateur he mentioned because I could identify with them all. This book shows me I have a lot of work ahead, but using it as a tool, I have identified weaknesses in my writing that eluded me before. I plan to continue with his structure advice to strengthen my essays. It is a book to own, not to borrow, because I will be referencing it for a long time.

Writing for Story Craft Secrets of Dramatic Nonfiction by a Two-time Pulitzer Prize Winner

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