Inferred from the subject's mind, soul, or character as the biographer has come to understand these.
What is Life?
100
A prudent first step in writing a personal essay.
What is narrowing your focus?
100
Webster's definition is "a matter of interest to newspaper readers."
What is news?
100
Denotes a movement in space and time, a getting from here to there and maybe back again.
What is Travel?
100
"An essay needs this, just as a short story does," Philip Lopate warns. "Without it, your essay will drift into static mode, repeating your initial observation in a self-satisfied way."
What is conflict?
200
Sharp detail and careful description.
What is the goal in writing a memoir essay?
200
Becoming the person behind the personal essay.
What is the true you?
200
We know who the reporter is, where the reporter was standing, how the reporter felt, what the reporter thought was meant by particular statements.
What is the objective mode?
200
Unknown land.
What is terra incognita?
200
Fact based writing.
What is fiction?
300
One of the best impulses from which to begin any form of writing, and that certainly includes memoir.
What is curiousity?
300
Your take on this subject, how you feel,and how do the details and description you have added reveal your individual point of view.
What is Personal?
300
An important aspect of many stories is what journalists call this.
What is the angle?
300
We may travel back (if we make it back)having learned that there is this.
What is no place like home?
300
The building blocks of creative nonfiction writing. Pictures showing the story.
What are scenes?
400
Like a flashback in fiction to provide readers with the necessary information to understand the action of the narrative.
What is a convoluted frame?
400
Personal essays are told in active ______.
What is voice?
400
Reporters do not speak of getting the facts.
What is getting the story?
400
A conception of this residing primarily outdoors, away from civilization, in rustic settings and the wild; a source of spiritual health and poetic inspiration.
What is nature?
400
Memorable small or unusual these that readers would not necessarily know or even imagine.
What are intimate details?
500
Current age, looking back at an event, considering it from hindsight.
What is Point of View?
500
Contained in the personal essay is a journey of this about the author's self.
What is discovery?
500
As Gay Talese put it: " This though often reading like a fiction, is not fiction. It is, or should be, as reliable as the most reliable reportage although it seeks a larger truth than is possible through the mere compilation of verifiable facts...."
What is new journalism?
500
Nature writing is about these and these that form our world.