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Write your memoir : the soul work of telling your story

Hunter, Allan G.2010
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Dr. Allan Hunter has worked with memoirists and other writers for over 25 years, using writing for self-exploration. His unusual approach to memoir writing will stimulate, challenge, and liberate you, so you can write the memoir you truly need to
Imprint:
Forres Findhorn 2010
Collation:
148 p.
Contents:
What is soul work? What does it look like? Why is it worth doing? -- Listening to your life: starting the writing -- Making space for your writing in your life -- Establishing a writing practice -- Now I've done some writing, where do I start my memoir? -- Should I work alone or with others? -- Letting your story tell you how it needs to be told. Generating new material -- Understanding the new material and what it can give you -- Now it's time to talk about structure... -- The fall from grace and the fall into grace: what can you learn from disaster? -- What can I say in my memoir? What if someone gets upset? The six stages each memoir, and each memoir writer, will go through -- Up close and personal: what's your relationship to your memoir? -- Details, details, details... research and how to use it -- Overlooked and hidden memories: the lies we tell ourselves -- The six stages as mirrored in this book -- Memoir as liberation -- Endings
ISBN:
9781844091775 (pbk)
Dewey class:
808.066 WRI
Local class:
808.066
Language:
English
BRN:
5378
LocationCollectionCall numberStatus/Desc
St MarysNonfiction808.066 WRIAvailable
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