When Yunuen Bonaparte first came up with the idea for a series celebrating the art of narrative storytelling, "my vision wasn't super clear," Lee Gutkind, co-founder of Creative Nonfiction, writes at Narratively.
"Until, that is, the pitches and drafts started coming in and I began to see what felt like such an obscure, specific theme come to life in exactly the ways I had hopedand in some ways I hadn't anticipated."
The result is The Art of Narrative Storytelling, a collection of four essays that "each take a magnifying glass to how writing and the process behind it moves us' forward, sometimes backward, and often emotionally and even physically in ways we could never have imagined," Gutkind writes.
One of the essays, "How to tell a story that doesn't have a clean ending and instead leaves readers with lingering questions," was called "epic" by reader Banchiwosen Woldeyesus.
The others are "the plight of one woman in search of constructive criticism on her writing that, for once, isn't centered on her disability; a writer's quixotic quest to speak to one of his writing heroes about their shared writing hero; and finally, how to tell a story that doesn
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