Here’s something I appreciated from each story in
The Best Creative Nonfiction: Volume 2.
Anyone should be able to use incorporate these ideas into their personal works whether
they’ve read the stories or not.The Best Creative Nonfiction: Volume 2.
- Spire—mixes two creative elements (her asking for help and the puzzles)
- Final: Comprehensive, Roughly—uses charts!
- Here I Am in Bergdoff Goodman—uses childhood events to dream of a better future
- Instead of the Rat Pack—has an unhappy ending, similar yet different characters, and many visual items
- The Art of Writing a Story About Walking Across Andorra—focuses on a place, quotes others, incorporates text about the writing process itself
- Pursuing the Great Bad Novelist—uses a little-known historic figure and begins where it ends
- Moby-Duck—uses multiple perspectives to take an ordinary real event and makes it wonderful through imagination and research
- The Egg and I—chooses and explores a controversial subject, and pits two characters against each other
- Figurines—has characters with different levels of awareness about an issue
- The Writers in the Silos—imagines something impossible, makes it seem real, and reveals the different perspectives of new generations
- My First Fairy Tale—explores early childhood memory and shows that children know more than adults often guess
- A Sudden Pull Behind the Heart—tries to find meaning in an experience
- The
SuicideMurder? Of Joseph Kupchik—uses solid researching and reporting skills (It also uses a strikethrough in the title! How cool is that?!) - My Glove—deconstructs an object (and sport) that the author knows well
- Teaching the “F” Word—spins something vulgar (if not controversial) so that it seems helpful
- Hi, I’m Panicky—makes something ordinary terrifying, uses humor, and is pleasantly short
- Wednesday, August 23, 2006—has an unusual formation of text and explores simple phrases
- Cracking Open—a gritty, shocking tragedy that must have taken serious guts to write; any reader should be able to feel the emotion of this story
- Range of Desire—attempts to break a stereotype
- The Dangerous Joy of Dr. Sex—shows pieces of a person’s life from beginning to end, and reveals the positive and negative sides of ambition; makes me want to get to work immediately because time is wasting!
- …By Any Other Name—uses a specific event to express a major issue
- Ceremony—causes us to rethink something we all do
- Anti-Aliasing—merges two writing formats (instructional and memoir?)
- Everything That’s Wrong With
Facebook—cheapens one thing and shows that there’s more than what’s seen on
the surface of another
www.bradleycannon.com - It Was Nothing—includes many short scenes and fragments
- Shrinks Get It Wrong Sometimes— prepares readers for the future stages of life and deals with a personal mistake
- George—shows a person change over time
- Errands in the Forest—indicates mysteries in the world and, surprisingly, does not try to solve or spoil these things!
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