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Memoir/Life Story Writing
Writing a memoir that is compelling and meaningful for others to read can be challenging, but with the help of the best selling authors from Writer's Digest, you will learn how to "develop your voice," write your own life story and most importantly, how to write a memoir.
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Creativity
Character Development
Dialogue / Plot and Structure
Point of View / Voice and Style
Tension and Conflict
Revision, Critique and Review
Crafting the Personal Essay
--by Dinty W. Moore
While some people persist in the belief that essays are stuffy and antiquated, the truth is that the personal essay is an ever-changing creative medium that provides an ideal vehicle for satisfying the human urge to document truths as we experience them and share them with others—to capture a bit of life on paper.
Crafting the Personal Essay is designed to help you explore the flexibility and power of the personal essay in your own writing. This hands-on, creativity-expanding guide will help you infuse your nonfiction with honesty, personality, and energy. Brimming with helpful examples, exercises, and sample essays, this indispensable guide will help your personal essays transcend the merely private to become powerfully universal. |Read More/Buy|
Writing & Selling Your Memoir
--by Paula Balzer
A memoir isn't one long diary entry. Rather, it's a well-crafted story about a crucial, often exceptionally difficult time, in someone's life. Chock full of techniques, detailed exercises, examples from best-selling memoirs, and sidebars from well-known memoir authors, Writing & Selling Your Memoir teaches you how to approach this genre with love, respect and know-how... without sentimentalizing it. Bonus! Get a helpful Publishing House Imprint List! This handy list breaks down which imprints belong to which publishing houses and can help you in your submission planning. |Read More/Buy |
You Should Really Write a Book: How to Write, Sell and Market Your Memoir
--by Regina Brooks
If you’ve ever been told that You Should Really Write a Book, and you’ve decided to give it a try, this book is for you. Even if you don’t happen to be a celebrity, this book will teach you methods for striking publishing gold---- conceptualizing, selling and marketing a memoir--- while dealing with the complicated emotions that arise during the creation of your work.
Writing the Memoir Tutorial: Part 1 of 2
--by Paula Munier
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Writing your memoir is essentially writing about a journey in which you are the hero. By applying the structure of the "hero's journey" to your life story, you can create a compelling narrative that agents and editors will want to buy, and readers won't want to put down. In this week's featured tutorial, "Writing the Memoir: Part 1," veteran editor and Cup of Comfort series creator Paula Munier teaches you how to apply the three acts of the hero's journey (found in stories as diverse as Cinderella, Star Wars, and Eat Pray Love) to the story of your life. After addressing key questions such as "Why Write a Memoir?" and "What Are the Rules?" the tutorial helps you identify your own "Call to Adventure," "Approach to the Inmost Cave," and "Return With the Elixir." |Read More/Buy |
Writing the Memoir Tutorial: Part 2
--by Paula Munier
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The journey of the archetypal hero is the most popular story known to humankind and is common to mythologies of every culture. Countless modern tales--from Cinderella, to Star Wars, to Eat Pray Love--are adaptations of the three-act hero's journey. Part 2: Writing the Memoir, veteran editor and author Paula Munier demonstrates how to use fictional techniques inherent in the three-act hero's journey as the basis for your life story. |Read More/Buy |
How to Write a Story: The Art of Storytelling
When learning how to write a story that audiences (and publishers) will buy, it's important to remember that most successful stories are built the same way, share common plot points and themes, and have narrative paragraph after paragraph that tie the entire book together from beginning to end. But if you don't take the time to research and understand the forms that most bestselling novels share, you'll have a tough time building a story that sells.