Who’s telling the story?
Yes, Who should be telling the story.
No, who is it that’s telling us the story?
Right. Who.
The style of writing we’re doing here in the writing track at Salt falls somewhere in the realm of creative non-fiction, narrative non-fiction, and documentary journalism. What we write is meant to tell a true story on [...]
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Who’s on first? A dramatic and vaudevillian foray into the realm of first-person non-fiction writing
11.5.09 by Kristen Hewitt Leave a reply »Things get messy and broken
10.28.09 by Jess Winter Leave a reply »I really love Anne Lamott. Actually, I really love her and her book, “Bird by Bird.” Lamott has a chapter in her book entitled, Perfectionism.
She writes:
“You set out to tell a story of some sort, to the tell truth as you feel it, because something is calling you do so. It calls you like the [...]
Lunch Hour on Shepherd’s Hill
10.3.09 by Kristen Hewitt Leave a reply »It’s lunchtime at the Shepherd’s Hill Mennonite School and the children are eating on the steps just outside the church. They’ve separated themselves into groups, boys and girls. The yard sloping down to the road is still, that is until Sister Joy Weaver—a proper but youthful and rosy-cheeked Mennonite school teacher— decides it is time [...]
