Learning with The Best of Brevity
In Dr. Christine Stewart-Nuñez’s Writing Creative Nonfiction course taught at South Dakota State University, our class read The Best of Brevity: Twenty Groundbreaking Years of Flash Nonfiction cover-to-cover. From Dinty W. Moore’s introduction, we learned about the genre’s criteria: restricting word count, establishing immediate tension, and making deliberate decisions regarding style and diction. Yet within...