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She lives in chicago, where she teaches writing for children at the university of chicagos writers studio and the newberry library. Craft secrets of dramatic nonfiction by jon franklin. Shorter form writing or presenting, video creating, etc is more difficult because every sentence is more valuable and needs to deliver a message. Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by project gutenberg. The secret to professional writing is a fusion of learned craftsm. Instead of focusing on style, grammar, and word use, as do many books on writing, writing for story provides a rigorous lesson in building a nonfiction story short or long that has structural integrity. Jon franklin, in his book, writing for story, proposes a different type of outline.