Find Your Story, Write Your Memoir by Lynn Miller

Find Your Story, Write Your Memoir by Lynn Miller

Every person has a story to tell, but few beginners know how to uncover their story's narrative potential. And despite a growing interest among students and creative writers, few guides to the genre of memoirs and creative nonfiction highlight compelling storytelling strategies. Addressing that gap, authors Lynn C. Miller and Lisa Lenard-Cook have provided a compact, accessible guide to memoir writing that shows how an aspiring memoir writer can use storytelling tools and tactics borrowed from fiction to weave personal experiences into the shape of a story. Find Your Story, Write Your Memoir offers an overview of the building blocks of memoir writing. Individual chapters focus on key issues and challenges, such as the balance between the remembering narrator and the experiencing narrator, the capacity to honour the subjective voice, the occasion of telling (why does this narrator tell this story now?), creating an organically functional structure for a particular story, and taking the next steps with a written memoir. Drawing on their combined years of experience teaching memoir writing, authoring works of fiction and nonfiction, and working in autobiographical performance, Miller and Lenard-Cook provide a practical guide whose core philosophy is motivated by a key word: story.

Lynn C. Miller is the author of the novels Death of a Department Chair and The Fool's Journey and coeditor of Voices Made Flesh: Performing Women's Autobiography. A playwright and solo performer, she is former professor of theater and dance as well as women's and gender studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Lisa Lenard-Cook is the PEN-shortlisted author of Dissonance, Coyote Morning, and The Mind of Your Story. She is a faculty member at the Santa Barbara Writers Conference and at the Narrative Arts Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Together, they cofounded ABQ Writers Co-op, a creative community for Southwest writers.

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ISBN 13	9780299293147
ISBN 10	0299293149
Title	Find Your Story, Write Your Memoir
Author	Lynn Miller
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	University of Wisconsin Press
Year published	2013-05-31
Number of pages	146
Prizes	IndieFab awards
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