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Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- ELEMENTS OF FINE WRITING -- PURPOSE OF THE NOTEBOOK -- Goal, Quest, Story -- CHANCE PARTICULARS -- Use of the Senses -- Specificity, Precision, and Concrete Detail -- PLACE -- Landscape and Nature -- Towns, Streets, and Buildings -- PEOPLE -- Portraits and Interviews -- Encounters, Observations, and Activities -- FACTS, HISTORY, AND CULTURE -- Basic Facts, History, and Cultural Observations -- TECHNICAL AND OTHER PERTINENT INFORMATION -- Informational Notes -- CHRONICLE -- Record of Daily Activities and Travels -- PERSONAL RESPONSES -- Feelings and Contemplations -- COMMONPLACE NOTES: PERSPECTIVES OF OTHERS AND MISCELLANEA -- Quotations and Thoughts from Experts, Scholars, and Literary Forebears-and Other Miscellanea -- ASSOCIATIONS AND FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE -- Metaphor and Simile -- REFLECTIONS -- Thoughts and Musings -- WRITING NOTES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- APPENDIX

Title Chance particulars : a writer's field notebook for travelers, bloggers, essayists, memoirists, novelists, journalists, adventurers, naturalists, sketchers, and other note-takers and recorders of life / Sara Mansfield Taber, illustrated by Maud Taber-Thomas.
Edition 1st ed.
Publisher Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press
Creation Date [2018]
Notes Includes bibliographical references.
Content Introduction -- Elements of fine writing -- Purpose of the notebook -- Goal, quest, story -- Chance particulars -- Use of the senses -- Specificity and concrete detail -- Place -- Landscape and nature -- Towns, streets and buildings -- People -- Portraits and interviews -- Encounters, observations and activities -- Facts, history and culture -- Basic facts, history and culture -- Technical and other pertinent information -- Informational notes -- Chronicle -- Record of daily activities and travels -- Personal responses -- Emotional responses -- Commonplace notes: perspectives of others, and miscellanea -- Quotations and thoughts from experts, scholars and literary forebears-and other miscellanea -- Reflections -- Thoughts and musings -- Associations and figurative language -- Metaphor and simile -- Writing notes -- About the author.
Extent 1 online resource (119 pages)
Language English
Copyright Date ©2018
National Library system number 997010709147705171
MARC RECORDS
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