Part 1: The Story of Your Life: Memoir and Personal Essay

(Add: weaving narration and exposition; telling details and specificity; dialogue for characterization; narration of action)

1: What makes creative nonfiction creative? TTS: The Emotional Core of the Story (149-154) IN FACT: The Creative Nonfiction Police (xix-xxxiii) First Jody by Jody Sperling (Waccamaw Journal, online) All the Ways We Fool Ourselves by Amy Monticello (Waccamaw Journal, online)

2: Digging up Bones: Finding the Personal Story IN FACT: Mixed-Blood Stew by Jewell Parker Rhodes (382-394)

3: Voice, Point of View, and Subjectivity v. Objectivity KINGS: My Republican Journey by Dan Savage (374-388) KINGS: The Hostess Diaries by Coco Henson Seales (362-373)

4: The Narrator as Character TTS: The Personal Essay and the First-Person Character (78-81) IN FACT: Dinner at Uncle Boris's by Charles Simic (85-91)

5: The Eye and The I: Writing to Make Meaning IN FACT: Shunned by Meredith Hall (49-70)

6: Writing in Scene

TTS: Summary v. Dramatic Narrative (111-112) TTS: Reconstructing Scenes, etc. (132-140) IN FACT: Delivering Lily by Philip Lopate (419-440)

7: Characterization and Dialogue TTS: Character, etc. (126-132) IN FACT: Joe Stopped By by Andrei Codrescu (307-317)

8: Form and Structure TTS: A Story Structure (109-111) TTS: Endings (116-121) IN FACT: Notes from a Difficult Case by Ruthann Robson (226-244)

Part 2: Writing Outside the Self: Literary Journalism, Profile Writing, and Cultural Criticism

9: Telling Someone Else's Story: Intro to Narrative Journalism TTS: everything from 6-13 IN FACT: Finders Keepers by Mark Bowden (189-225)

10: Reporting and Interviewing TTS: 19-33 and Narrative J School for People Who Never Went (59-62) KINGS: Jonathan Lebed's Extracurricular Activities by Michael Lewis (15-41)

11: The Profile Piece Day 1 TTS: Profiles, Every Profile is an Epic Story, and The Limits of Profiles (66-74) IN FACT: Crazy Things Seem Normal, Normal Things Seem Crazy by Chuck

Klosterman (198-211) Internet (The New Yorker), Alice, Off the Page by Calvin Trillin http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2006/03/27/060327fa_fact_trillin

12: The Profile Piece Day 2 KINGS: The American Man, Age Ten (144-159) KINGS: Six Degrees of Lois Weisberg by Malcolm Gladwell (62-85)

13: Immersion Journalism TTS: 35-48 KINGS: Among the Thugs by Bill Buford (160-197)

14: The Issue, Event, or Place Piece TTS: 48-54 KINGS: Power Steer by Michael Pollan (389-411) Toxic Dreams by Jack Hitt (42-61)

15: The Cultural Criticism Piece KINGS: Host by David Foster Wallace Internet: This Essay Doesn't Rock by Joe Oestreich http://pencilstorm.com/blog/2013/8/20/z4izqlk3ayqan40c7dtpyy00vhmgxs

16: Issues of Ethics TTS: 164-176 TTS: Taking Liberties (187-189)