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Follow the Story: How to Write Successful Nonfiction [1]

by
James B. Stewart
Published in 1998
by Simon & Schuster

In Follow the Story, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist James B. Stewart lays out techniques on writing nonfiction from conception to publication, covering wide-ranging topics such as research, structure, description, dialogue, humor, and endings that can be used for a variety of genres, including fiction and narrative nonfiction. Lauded [2] by many in the literary community, this book on the craft of nonfiction guides writers through every aspect of telling a compelling story and offers a reminder that writing, as Stewart says, “may be absorbing, satisfying, even exhilarating, but it is hard work.”


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[1] https://www.pw.org/best-books/follow_the_story_how_to_write_successful_nonfiction [2] https://www.pw.org/agents_editors_recommend/adam_eaglin_of_the_cheney_agency