{"id":10541,"date":"2005-10-26T19:39:33","date_gmt":"2005-10-26T23:39:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/2005\/10\/26\/telling-the-story\/"},"modified":"2005-10-26T19:39:33","modified_gmt":"2005-10-26T23:39:33","slug":"telling-the-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/2005\/10\/26\/telling-the-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Telling the Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just finished reading Telling the Story by Peter Rubie. The book is a guide to writing and selling narrative nonfiction. Fiction is my first love, though ninety percent of books sold are nonfiction ( perhaps that amour needs rethinking ) and I enjoy biographies and historical pieces. The Power Broker by Robert Caro is an excellent example of nonfiction narrative.<\/p>\n<p>Peter offers two excellent quotes:<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Unless you have been published, you are not the best judge of your work.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Beginning writers seem to fall in love with description in their early drafts and forget that description, like adjectives, should be sprinkled on like salt, not butter.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll second both of these.<\/p>\n<p>The book covers drafting nonfiction proposals, the value of literary agents in placing manuscripts ( Peter Rubie admits his bias here, he is one ), why projects get rejected and what to look for in a good agent. Included are several nonfiction book proposals for reference. As a bonus, it&#8217;s very well written.<\/p>\n<p>Eight hundred plus words today, every last one a battle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just finished reading Telling the Story by Peter Rubie. The book is a guide to writing and selling narrative nonfiction. Fiction is my first love, though ninety percent of books sold are nonfiction ( perhaps that amour needs rethinking ) and I enjoy biographies and historical pieces. The Power Broker by Robert Caro is an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}