Writing Life Stories by Bill Roorbach - ISBN: 9781582975276
Paperback
Teaches writers how to open up memory, access emotion and discover compelling material; shape scenes from experience, as life events become plot lines; and populate stories with the fascinating, silly, and maddening “characters” that surround them.

Writing Life Stories

How to Make Memories into Memoirs, Ideas into Essays and Life into Literature

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  • Paperback

    256 pages

  • Release Date

    1 July 2008

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Summary

How to Make Memories into Memoirs, Ideas into Essays, and Life into LiteratureFrom 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…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781582975276
ISBN-10:1582975272
Author:Bill Roorbach
Publisher:F&W Publications Inc
Imprint:Writer's Digest Books
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:256
Edition:2nd
Release Date:1 July 2008
Weight:417g
Dimensions:229mm x 152mm x 20mm
About The Author

Bill Roorbach

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.

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