Writing a Non-fiction Book: Capture Real-life Experiences
What Have You Got?
A course by Duncan Barrett , Writer and Editor
About the video: What Have You Got?
Overview
“Time to take everything you’ve learned in this unit and lay it out on the table, literally. Then you’re going to take stock of where things stand before moving on to Unit 3 and start thinking about what we’re going to do with it all. ”
In this video lesson Duncan Barrett addresses the topic: What Have You Got?, which is part of the Domestika online course: Writing a Non-fiction Book: Capture Real-life Experiences. Turn a true story into an engaging page-turner by exploring interview methods, writing techniques, and character development for non-fiction writing.
Partial transcription of the video
“ What Have You Got? In this lesson, we'll take stock of the work we've done and decide which elements will make it into our final project. There's no one right way, so I'll talk through a few strategies that I've found helpful in the past. By the time I come to write a book, I usually have an unwieldy collection of transcripts. Sometimes for a book of 100,000 words, I might have a million words worth of transcripts to work from. It can be quite unwieldy, so the first step is to try to put them into some order. For a start, I put all the transcripts from one individual into one large docume...”
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Course summary for: Writing a Non-fiction Book: Capture Real-life Experiences
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Communication, Creative Writing, Narrative, Non-Fiction Writing, Storytelling, Writing
Duncan Barrett
A course by Duncan Barrett
Writer and Editor Duncan Barrett grew up as an avid reader and a lover of history. After studying English literature at university he went to drama school and decided to pursue a career as an actor, while working in publishing on the side. In 2009 Duncan found a WW1 memoir in the Imperial War Museum archive that he turned into a published book, The Reluctant Tommy.
The insight he gained in writing an impactful book-length story sparked a chain of events that led him to become an author of narrative non-fiction specializing in biography and memoir. His work includes the series’ The Sugar Girls and GI Brides which he wrote with his partner and which appeared in the The Sunday Times and The New York Times bestsellers’ lists. Duncan is also known for his solo titles such as Men of Letters, which was nominated for the People's Book Prize, Hitler's British Isles, and Ronnie Le Drew's showbiz memoir Unzipped. He also writes features for The Guardian.
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