{"title":"Saving Our Lives","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"saving-our-lives-book-d-margaret-hoffman-9781517040956","title":"Saving Our Lives","description":"For most of her life, D. Margaret Hoffman taught other people to write. By challenging herself to write an essay a week for a year, she learned first-hand that life is always there to hand us something more to say. Saving Our Lives: Essays to Inspire the Writer in YOU was born of this challenge. Here Hoffman spills her life stories AND her writing secrets. It is a collection that unveils her strengths--observing life's moments, reliving them in words and motivating others to do the same. If you've always wanted to write, this is the book that will inspire you to DO it. If you're looking for a book of essays that you can enjoy reading just because, that's here, too. Chances are good that you will find yourself somewhere, somehow in these pages and you will be glad you came. Hoffman's essays will encourage you to pay attention to the life you live, to admire the details, to find the fun. With humor and heart, they'll convince you that your life, too, is worth saving--one story at a time.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51189311471889,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51189312717073,"sku":"NIN9781517040956","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51816708505873,"sku":"CIN1517040957G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1517040957.jpg?v=1751086195"},{"product_id":"saving-our-lives-book-d-margaret-hoffman-9780997916904","title":"Saving Our Lives","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSaving Our Lives: Volume Two--Essays to Release the Writer in YOU\u003c\/em\u003e is a book of personal essays and writing advice designed to entertain readers and to encourage writers. Hoffman fashions her opinions, experiences and life stories into essays on a variety of topics with the intent of convincing readers that \u003cem\u003etheir\u003c\/em\u003e opinions, experiences and life stories are valuable and worth saving--one small piece at a time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eVolume Two\u003c\/em\u003e continues the work begun in \u003cem\u003eSaving Our Lives: Volume One--Essays to Inspire the Writer in YOU \u003c\/em\u003ewith thirty-one new essays and over three-hundred writing prompts. Essays cover everything from woodpeckers and funerals to geniuses and girdles with a special section of travel essays that coax readers to look at the world around them in small and wonderful ways. The message here is that there is value in the details of our lives, if only we can find ways to focus on them, capture them and save them for all time. Hoffman has found a way to do just that and uses her book as an example of how all of us can save our stories if we are committed to the task.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHere is an excerpt from the Introduction to \u003cem\u003eSaving Our Lives\u003c\/em\u003e: \u003cem\u003e Volume Two--Essays to Release the Writer in YOU.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eI wish I had a book sale for every time I've heard someone say, My life is crazy  I could write a book  But I suppose I'd have to refund the money for everyone who's said it and then didn't do it--which is just about everyone I've ever heard say it. So, then, you might say, if people whose lives are fraught with drama don't get it done, what hope is there for me? My life is so ordinary. Nothing interesting ever happens to me. What is there worth writing about? Well, let's see.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eVolume Two\u003c\/em\u003e is the second installment of a three-part series. Individually or as a set, the \u003cem\u003eSaving Our Lives\u003c\/em\u003e books provide both readers and writers with a fresh, entertaining and manageable approach to memoir--and life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53009053024529,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53009053221137,"sku":"NIN9780997916904","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780997916904.jpg?v=1786131013"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/collections\/saving-our-lives-book-series.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}