Lifewriting drawing from personal experience to create features you can publish

Main Author: White, Fred D., 1943-
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: Sanger, Calif. : Quill Driver Books, c2004.
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Table of Contents:
  • Getting started on your lifewriting adventure
  • Using a daybook to hoard your treasure trove of memories and reflections
  • Digging for information
  • Transforming raw data into lifewriting
  • Organizing techniques I: working up an outline
  • Organizing techniques II: writing the treatment
  • Drafting I: wield
  • Ing opening magic
  • Drafting II: bodybuilding
  • Drafting III: calling it a wrap
  • Revision: the fine art of re-seeing your first draft
  • Writing a personal-experience feature
  • Writing portraits and self-portraits
  • Copyediting for style I
  • Copyediting for style II
  • Selling your lifewriting to newspapers, literary
  • Journals, and magazines
  • "I could write a book": here's how
  • Anatomy of an essay.