Writing for Story
by Jon Franklin · Jon Franklin
Jon Franklin's guide to narrative nonfiction, built around his Pulitzer Prize-winning story "Mrs. Kelly's Monster" and a second annotated piece. It explains how to find a story's complication and resolution, outline it in a few sentences, structure scenes, and revise prose.
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