Writing Life Stories: How To Make Memories Into Memoirs, Ideas Into Essays And Life Into Literature

Editorial Review:

Writing Life Stories is a classic text that appears on countless creative nonfiction and composition syllabi the world over. This updated 10th anniversary edition gives readers the same friendly instruction and stimulating exercises along with updated information on current memoir writing trends, ethics, Internet research, and even marketing ideas. Readers will discover how to turn their untold life stories into vivid personal essays and riveting memoirs by learning to open up memory, access emotions, shape scenes from experience, develop characters, and research supporting details. With creativity sparking ideas from signing a form releasing yourself to take risks in your work to drawing a map of a remembered neighborhood, this book is full of innovative techniques that prove that real stories are often the best ones.

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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

Writing Life Stories:

This product is great as part of a writing course or for tips for beginning memoir writers or for writers struggling with creative nonfiction.

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