CNF Craft Pack: Getting to the Truth AND Doodling for Writers ($34 value)
A Double Dose of Craft from Books by Hippocampus!
Save $5 (or more, if bundle is on sale!) off the collective cover price when you buy both of our craft books together:
Getting to the Truth: The Craft and Practice of Creative Nonfiction is the latest release from Books by Hippocampus and features craft essays from 22 seasoned CNF writers and publishing pros. (See more below, including the full list of contributors.)
Doodling for Writers by Rebecca Fish Ewan, released in October 2020, is for creative writers of any genre. Ewan combines her wit and wisdom with practical, engaging prompts to illustrate how doodling and sketching can enrich your writing life.
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Doodling for Writers by Rebecca Fish Ewan
Full of easy to follow prompts and direct ways to connect doodling to the writing process, this book will be a must-have on any writer’s shelf. It’s funny, rich, irreverent and profoundly relevant to today’s creatives.”
Laraine Herring, author of A Constellation of Ghosts: A Speculative Memoir with Ravens
Drawing and doodling in the margins, on napkins, anywhere can contribute to your writing process and fuel your creativity.
In Doodling for Writers, memoirist and cartoonist Rebecca Fish Ewan combines her wit and wisdom with practical, engaging prompts and activities to illustrate how simple sketching can get you over hurdles, bring back memories, and even provide a roadmap for where your story needs to go.
Full of encouragement and anecdotes, Fish Ewan’s cartoon-self accompanied by a few sidekicks will guide you through basics of drawing and then show you to how to apply it to your writing process through character sketches, place maps, and more.
In the author-illustrator’s words, ”This book is not about getting writers to abandon their craft so they can become artists. For one, writing is an art form, so they’re already artists. For two, this book is about letting drawing enrich their writing life, not replace it.”
Pick up this book, pick up a pencil and erase the notion that you can’t draw.
Getting to the Truth: The Craft and Practice of Creative Nonfiction edited by Rae Pagliarulo and Donna Talarico
This collection of craft essays offers thoughtful insights from some of the highest-rated speakers from HippoCamp: A Conference for Creative Nonfiction Writers, who also happen to be some of the brightest minds in CNF we know. The craft anthology is rounded out by the wise writers behind a couple of Hippocampus Magazine’s most-read craft columns. Whether you’re new to writing creative nonfiction or want to improve your craft, there’s something within these pages that will ignite your creativity.
Getting to the Truth, like our conference, is about more than the craft of writing. It also covers the writing life, paths to publication, and engaging with your audience. So, this book is divided into three sections:
Getting It Down
Getting Through It
Getting It Right
Oh, and of course a bonus section at the end with lots of resources!
Its 20+ essays include deep dives into topics like:
Impostor syndrome
Generating story ideas
Beginnings and endings in creative nonfiction
Visual essays, lyric essays, and other blending of genres
Writing about family members
Memory (and what we don’t remember)
The quiet memoir
… and so. much. more.
Getting to the Truth features the wisdom and insight of writers such as:
Eli Aharon
Steph Auteri
Sue Baldwin-Way
Nicole Breit
Melanie Brooks
Kelly Caldwell
Angie Chatman
Sam Chiarelli
Athena Dixon
Wendy Fontaine
Joanne M. Lozar Glenn
Penny Guisinger
Laurie Jean
Elane Johnson
Beth Kephart
Lara Lillibridge
Kate Meadows
Jenna McGuiggan
Randon Billings Noble
Alexis Paige
Dave Pidgeon
Matt Skillen
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