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 In this excerpt from Writing Life Stories, Bill Roorbach teaches you how to pay attention to and translate your memories and how to overcome your resistance to remembered places and events.
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 Bill Roorbach, author of Writing Life Stories, has publications in both creative nonfiction (memoir, essays, nature writing) and fiction (novel, short stories). He's also the William H.P. Jenks Chair in Contemporary American Letters at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts. The advice he emphasizes is this: Write every day.
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The biographer’s task can be overwhelming. Here’s how one biographer learned to breathe new life into her subject.
by Marion Elizabeth Rodgers
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Augusten Burroughs wrote through his life as an abandoned child, high school dropout and alcoholic—and somehow found sanity, sobriety and success along the way.
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It takes a lot more than writing your heart on the page to sell a book. Here are three lessons in perseverance one writer learned the hard way.
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An interesting life and excellent writing are key to a compelling memoir. Learn the elements that will help make your story stand out from the rest of the pack.
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Capture your family stories in writing using these eight tips.
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It's the extraordinary story that interests readers. But it's how you present it that hooks them.
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The authors of two explosive memoirs talk about the fears that held them back—and why they wrote their books anyway. Could telling your own story be the corrective you need, too?
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