Writing Life Stories by Bill Roorbach

Writing Life Stories by Bill Roorbach

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 is the author of the O.Henry Award-winning story collection Big Bend, as well as the novels The Smallest Color and Life Among Giants, both of which are now being developed for an HBO series. Summers with Juliet was his memoir, while Into Woods was his essay collection. His work has appeared in the Atlantic, Harper's Monthly, Granta, and the New York Times Magazine, among other publications. He resides in Farmington, Maine, with his family.

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ISBN 13	9781582975276
ISBN 10	1582975272
Title	Writing Life Stories
Author	Bill Roorbach
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	F&W Publications Inc
Year published	2008-07-01
Number of pages	256
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