Writing Life Stories: How to Make Memories Into Memoirs, Ideas Into Essays and Life Into Literature

How to Make Memories into Memoirs, Ideas into Essays, and Life into Literature From drawing a map...
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Writing Life Stories: How to Make Memories Into Memoirs, Ideas Into Essays and Life Into Literature by Roorbach, Bill

Writing Life Stories: How to Make Memories Into Memoirs, Ideas Into Essays and Life Into Literature

¥3,974

Writing Life Stories: How to Make Memories Into Memoirs, Ideas Into Essays and Life Into Literature

¥3,974
Author: Bill Roorbach
Format: Paperback
Language: English
How to Make Memories into Memoirs, Ideas into Essays, and Life into Literature

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.

Author: Bill Roorbach
Publisher: Writer's Digest Books
Published: 07/01/2008
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9781582975276


Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 08/01/2008 pg. 33

About the Author
Bill Roorbach has published six books (both award-winning fiction and nonfiction) and makes appearances at colleges and conferences across the country. He holds the Williams H.P. Jenks Chair in Contemporary American Letters at the College of the Holy Cross, in Worcester, MA.

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