Book description
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.
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.
