Arnie Bernstein
Closing a Chapter By Recycling Your Books
Like many people, I’ve decided to downsize and divest myself of things I no longer need. Getting rid of outworn toasters or old clothes...
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Arnie Bernstein
- 7 min
Writing Your Narrative Nonfiction Book: Part 3-The Writing Process
In Part I of this series we looked at how to find your story. Part II looked at how to do research. Now that you’ve gathered copious...
Arnie Bernstein
- 6 min
Writing Your Nonfiction Narrative Book: Part 2-The Research Process
Here’s the second in our series of narrative nonfiction building blocks. This week we’re looking at research techniques, tips, and...
Arnie Bernstein
- 5 min
Writing Your Narrative Nonfiction Book: Part 1-Finding Your Story
Over these next three weeks you'll learn the building blocks of creating your narrative nonfiction book. This week we're looking at finding
Arnie Bernstein
- 8 min
An Ode to My Typewriters or "Thank you, Miss Begley" or ASDF JKL;
People are surprised that I use a manual typewriter to create my first drafts, but I don’t think anyone would be more astonished than...
Arnie Bernstein
- 3 min
The Elements of Style: Your Best Grammar Textbook
I used to think that writing grand and elaborate sentences strung together in monumental paragraphs were the foundations of Great...
Arnie Bernstein
- 5 min
Poring Over Print: the 5k of Reading?
Reading is hard. Seriously, reading is hard. I don't mean hard in the sense of working your way up and down the sometimes-impenetrable...
Arnie Bernstein
- 6 min
My Life as a Fan (of Philip Roth)
He was so deeply imbedded in my consciousness that for my first years of high school I seem to have believed there was no other writer...
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