EVERY LIFE HAS A STORY. HOW WILL YOU TELL YOURS? "The Heart and Craft of Lifestory Writing" provides you with all the tools and encouragement you need to preserve the memorable tales of your life. Within these pages, you will learn effective methods and discover insightful tips to create meaningful stories and collections that will be treasured, not only by you, but by generations of your descendants, as well. Lifestory writing instructor and coach Sharon Lippincott guides you through every step of the writing process -- from planning through layout and publication. With the instructions in this valuable resource, you will be able to: identify your overall purpose for telling your lifestory, and use that purpose to maintain project progress; develop a personal plan of action suited to your individual workstyle preferences, no matter if they be highly organized or semi-chaotic; stir your creative energies and recall relevant memories to record in your stories; write solid stories and edit them to the desired level of polish; and compile accumulated stories into a finished volume to be printed by any of several means. Whether you like to keep a handwritten journal, tap away on a typewriter, or post to a blog, every aspiring lifestory writer will benefit from reading "The Heart and Craft of Lifestory Writing."
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Hits the Sweet Spot:
You should only read this book if you are prepared to give up all your excuses for not writing those great stories you always meant to get to "someday." Because after you read it, all your reasons for not sharing who you are - on paper - will be dead in the dust. You know what they are - "I don't have time" - "I'm not a writer" - "I don't know how" - "I don't know what to leave out or put in" - "I don't know how to start" - "But what will my mother-uncle-girlfriend-husband-children-boss-neighbors think?"... more info
Pick Up Your Pen and Write:
This is a roll-up-your-sleeves-and-get-going book. Its encouraging admonishments should fall on the willing ears of beginning life-writers and experienced ones as well. "Start writing," the author urges the reluctant writer at any skill level. With this book, the writer will never go it alone. Sharon Lippincott is a master project person, a worker bee, not a flitting butterfly. Sticking-with-it is a problem all writers experience at one time or another. The solution? "When you have a purpose...you'll... more info
A superbly written, organized, and presented instructional manual:
"The Heart And Craft Of Lifestory Writing: How To Transform Memories Into Meaningful Stories" by Sharon M. Lippincott is an expertly written, 'reader friendly', specialized instruction guide that is especially recommended reading for anyone aspiring to write their memoirs and autobiographies. It is also an excellent 'how to' reference for authors who are writing biographies based upon the reminiscences and anecdotal stories of their subjects and others such as family members, friends and associates. All the... more info
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