| Description |
xi, 336 pages ; 20 cm |
| Contents |
Part 1. Before you start: The reasons why - How to use this book - Rewards and difficulties -- Part 2. Workshops: Getting started - Sources - Memory - Finding your voice - Bringing it to life : detail - Bringing it to life : drama - Structure - Crafting your story - Telling your truth - Experimenting with form : life writing - Questions, suggestions, topics - Out into the world -- Part 3. Anthology: Introduction - Fruit of the womb / Sue Olsen - View from the garden / Margot Anthony - Epiphany / Vicki Laveau-Harvie - Hold it / Jacqueline Ann McCormick - Trust me (I'm a holy man) / Jo Buchanan - Cyclops / Nicholas Spartalis - Journey to the centre / Leone Marten - Daddy's little girl / Monica McMahon - Stomach breathing and a nice cleansing enema / Rowena Harding-Smith - Learning to live / Sabine Erika - Mummy, they say I'm titchy / Robert Wood - Now we are six / Skye Rogers - Sally / Harold Hunt - Between two circles / Joanne Croxson - Then shall you truly dance / Julie Fuad -- Appendices A, B |
| Summary |
This edition has been expanded and revised throughout with completely new chapters on: finding your voice; how to write engaging narrative; and how to shape memoir, including "recovery" and travel or sojourn memoirs. The passion and delight of life-writing is illustrated in addition to an anthology of stories by people who have already been encouraged by Patti Miller's writing techniques |
| Notes |
Originally published: 1994 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 322-325) and index |
| Subject |
Autobiography -- Authorship.
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Biography as a literary form.
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Report writing.
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Report writing.
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| ISBN |
1865084344 (paperback) |
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9781865084343 (paperback) |
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