Reference | Words, Language & Grammar
Writing Life Stories
by Bill Roorbach 2020-05-13 21:21:42
image1
COMPARE PRICE
How to Make Memories into Memoirs, Ideas into Essays, and Life into Literature From 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 id... Read more
How to Make Memories into Memoirs, Ideas into Essays, and Life into Literature From 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 along with updated information on current memoir writing trends, ethics, internet research, and even marketing ideas. You'll discover how to turn your untold life stories into vivid personal essays and riveting memoirs by learning to open up memory, access emotions, shape scenes from experience, develop characters, and research supporting details. This guide will teach you to see your life more clearly and show you why real stories are often the best ones. Less
  • Publication date
  • Language
  • ISBN
  • June 17, 2008
  • eng
  • 9781599634524
autor-image
Bill Roorbach
Author
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 Contem...
Compare Prices
image
Buy USD 4.82
image
Buy GBP 11.31
Available Discount
No Discount available
Related Books
view all
image1
The Chinese Classics: with a translation, critical and exegetical notes, prolegomena, and copious indexes:
image1
Contes de Noël par Josette (French Edition):
image1
New Word-Analysis, or School Etymology of English Derivative Words ...:
image1
Evenings at Donaldson Manor; Or, the Christmas Guest:
image1
Lectures on the Science of Language:
image1
Hand of Fu-Manchu, The: Being a New Phase in the Activities of Fu-Manchu, the Devil Doctor:
image1
Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa:
image1
A Handbook of the English Language:
image1
Arthur: A Short Sketch of His Life and History in English Verse of the First Half of the Fifteenth Century:
image1
Write It Right: A Little Blacklist of Literary Faults:
image1
500 Grammar Based Conversation Questions:
image1
A Grammar of the English Tongue:
image1
Library 101:
image1
A Dictionary of the Chinook Jargon, Or, Trade Language of Oregon:
image1
Chaucer: Animaduersions Uppon the Annotacions and Corrections of Some Imperfections of Impressiones of Chaucer's Workes Sett Downe Before Tyme and Nowe Reprinted in the Yere of Our Lorde 1598:
image1
English, Conversational Topics, Upper-Intermediate:
image1
Language Maintenance and Shift:
image1
Sanders' Union Fourth Reader: Embracing a Full Exposition of the Principles of Rhetorical Reading, with Numerous Exercises for Practice, Both in Prose and Poetry, Various in Style, and Carefu:
image1
The Works of Mr. Francis Beaumont, and Mr. John Fletcher; In Ten Volumes. Adorn'd With Cuts. Revis'd and Corrected: With Some Account of the Life and Writings of the Authors. Volume 6 of 10:
image1
Preface to a Dictionary of the English Language:
image1
Understanding the Leitmotif:
image1
How to Write Clearly; Rules and Exercises on English Composition:
image1
A History of the McGuffey Readers:
image1
Public Speaking: Principles and Practice:
image1
The American Language:

Stay in touch.

© 2025 AMPLE READS