Learn how to The Memoir Project
A Thoroughly Non-standardized Text for Writing & Life
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"The essential, eccentric guidebook for anyone wanting to write a memoir"--Provided by the publisher.
Imprint:
New York - Grand Central Publishing
Pages:
114
Edition:
1st ed
ISBN:
9780446584845, 0446584843
Call number:
808.06692 R6282m 2011
Language:
English
Contents:
You must be present to win : pay attention! : which details you include will determine the success of your memoir
Galileo in Walmart : don't let all the "stuff" of life's overcrowded aisles distract you; focus that lens to sharpen your tale
Having sex with Roger : get a firm grip on that first draft with your eyes open, the lights on, and a notebook by the bed
The Barbie-bodied book : your writing math must add up to a figure so compelling the reader can't take his eyes off your argument
Life in the morgue : editing is the perfect murder, though the darlings you kill can live to see another day
Galileo in Walmart : don't let all the "stuff" of life's overcrowded aisles distract you; focus that lens to sharpen your tale
Having sex with Roger : get a firm grip on that first draft with your eyes open, the lights on, and a notebook by the bed
The Barbie-bodied book : your writing math must add up to a figure so compelling the reader can't take his eyes off your argument
Life in the morgue : editing is the perfect murder, though the darlings you kill can live to see another day
Notes:
You must be present to win : pay attention! : which details you include will determine the success of your memoir -- Galileo in Walmart : don't let all the "stuff" of life's overcrowded aisles distract you; focus that lens to sharpen your tale -- Having sex with Roger : get a firm grip on that first draft with your eyes open, the lights on, and a notebook by the bed -- The Barbie-bodied book : your writing math must add up to a figure so compelling the reader can't take his eyes off your argument -- Life in the morgue : editing is the perfect murder, though the darlings you kill can live to see another day
Statement of responsibility:
Marion Roach Smith
Characteristics:
viii, 114 p. ;,21 cm
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Add a CommentBrief, simply without being simplistic. Humorous with great examples. Not another book of exercises on writing but on Doing Writing. One can tell she has been teaching this for years.