As a writer, how can you break through all the noise of the world to grab and keep your reader’s attention? How can you establish what’s at stake in your work in a way that’s both honest and compelling?
In this webinar, we’ll focus on the problem of how to ensure that there’s something in your creative nonfiction story—a compelling question or element of suspense or promise of something to come—that hooks your reader in the first paragraph or two and keeps them going, all the way to the end. You will come away with several concrete strategies for meeting this challenge.
Through close analysis of great writers of creative nonfiction, we will uncover how to turn even the most mundane experiences and idiosyncratic interests into writing that’s urgent, exciting, and meaningful.
Presented by Brian Pietras (Preceptor, Harvard College Writing Program)