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

    Written by Bill Roorbach

    Narrated by John McLain

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    About this audiobook

    From drawing a map of a remembered neighborhood to signing a form releasing yourself to take risks in your work, Roorbach offers innovative techniques that will trigger ideas for all writers.

    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 you the same friendly instruction and stimulating exercises along with updated information on current memoir writing trends, ethics, internet research, and even marketing ideas. You'll discover how to turn your 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.

    This guide will teach you to see your life more clearly and show you why real stories are often the best ones.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateSep 8, 2020
    ISBN9781705248041
    Writing Life Stories: How To Make Memories Into Memoirs, Ideas Into Essays And Life Into Literature
    Author

    Bill Roorbach

    BILL ROORBACH's newest book, The Girl of the Lake, is a collection of stories that was longlisted for the 2017 Story Prize and finalist for the Maine Literary Award in Fiction, 2017. Also from Roorbach are the novels The Remedy for Love, a finalist for the 2015 Kirkus Prize, and the best-selling Life among Giants, which won a Maine Literary Award in 2012. Nonfiction books include Temple Stream, Summers with Juliet, and Into Woods. Roorbach was a 2018 Civitella Ranieri Foundation Fellow in Umbria. He lives in western Maine.

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    • 5/5
      This is without doubt the best book on memoir writing I have ever read!

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    • 1/5
      Most of her (the book) is very similar to several other publications of the same genre. The narrator makes the flow smooth enough for her (the listener) to enjoy listening. However, the author is too full of herself. I do not truly understand why she uses the feminine third person pronoun for the gender neutral pronoun. "She" just doesn't sound natural or nuetral. It is sad to see gender politics being shoved down people's throats this way. Take a break. Give us a break.