Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- ELEMENTS OF FINE WRITING -- PURPOSE OF THE NOTEBOOK -- Goal, Quest, Story -- CHANCE PARTICULARS -- Use of the Senses -- Specificity, Precision, and Concrete Detail -- PLACE -- Landscape and Na…
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"A writer's goal--whether they are a traveler, memoirist, journalist, novelist, or blogger--is to live with the keenness of the foreigner, that is, to experience the sensations and events offered up by their surroundings and evoke them so thoroughly on the page that readers are …
"A writer's goal--whether they are a traveler, memoirist, journalist, novelist, or blogger--is to live with the keenness of the foreigner, that is, to experience the sensations and events offered up by their surroundings and evoke them so thoroughly on the page that readers are …
From literary journalist Sara Mansfield Taber comes a deep and wondrous memoir of her exotic childhood as the daughter of a covert CIA agent. As Taber leads us on a tour through the countries to which her father is assigned, we track two parallel stories those of young Sara and …