Introduction: Atonement -- PART I THE SEARCHING -- 1 Finding Your Story of Transformation -- 2 Uncovering Your Object of Desire -- 3 Recognizing the Story underneath Your Story -- 4 Turning Yourself into a Character -- PART II THE STRUCTURE -- 5 Incorporating the Five Essentials of Storytelling -- 6 Starting with One True Thing -- PART III THE STORY -- 7 Crafting Immersive Scenes -- 8 Using Fiction to Tell the Truth -- 9 Telling Your Story to Build Connection and Understanding -- Afterword -- Storytelling Exercises -- Suggested Further Reading -- About the Author -- Index
Summary
A foreword by former soldier and memoirist Brian Turner, author of My Life as a Foreign Country, and an afterword by military wife and memoirist Angela Ricketts, author of No Man's War: Irreverent Confessions of an Infantry Wife, bookend the volume
