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		<title>Ghost Wrote Her Mother&#8217;s Memoir, Part 3</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 13:07:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Linda Austin: I learned why my mother behaves the way she does, which is one reason why I strongly encourage telling life stories. What happens to us affects who we are and how we behave. Once I cried with my mother while parked in the lot of the Social Security building. She had told me about some incidents with her mother, and suddenly I saw how that affected her own behavior toward me. I so wished I had known this long ago so I would have understood her own foibles and not have been so angry. I felt so bad for not understanding.]]></description>
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		<title>Ghost Wrote Her Mother&#8217;s Memoir, Interview Part 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 13:12:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My mother liked telling stories and talking about the festivals, but hated being interviewed, and she thought I was crazy for writing about her life. She thought her life was difficult and sad so who'd want to hear about that. She also thought since everyone in Japan had lived through those tough times that her story was nothing special. Her best friend at the time, Frankie, pushed her to get her life written down and actually started typing the stories while I was out of the country for a year. If it weren't for Frankie, there might not be a memoir.]]></description>
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		<title>Parent&#8217;s Memoir: Finding Roots Across Generations</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 13:05:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is it co-authored or ghost written? Is it a memoir or a biography? These distinctions blur into artistic interpretations rather than hard definitions. When James McBride wrote about his own search for his mother's past in "Color of Water," he stayed inside his own point of view, with occasional well-marked shifts into his mother's voice. In Cherry Blossoms, Linda Austin drops out of the frame and lets her mother tell the story. ]]></description>
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		<title>Relationship between Fiction and Memoir, Interview Pt2</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 13:53:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The tougher the mess, the bigger the lies can be until they are so ridiculous that only the truth will do. Lies, like secrets, are also great story devices. As writers we do highlight elements in life, heightening them to make a story really shine.  In real life you might have one grand humiliating moment, in a book the character can experience a virtual fest of humiliation. Now that's a story.]]></description>
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		<title>Interview with an Indian Lifestory Author, Part 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 12:33:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[About six or seven years back, I joined an online writing community, the first for me, which mostly consisted of Americans as members. My interactions with these writing buddies enhanced my knowledge of Americanisms more than American English. That and reading international publications has enabled me to develop a style that I hope appeals to readers from different cultures.]]></description>
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		<title>Interview with an Indian Lifestory Author, Part 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 12:12:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I did not intend to write it like a typical travelogue, as in my memory, the city of Hyderabad shall always remain entwined with the first few months of my marriage. This wasn't just a new city for me; it was the first place I was exploring with my husband. This is where the two of us discovered each other most intimately, while also learning what we individually meant for the other partner. ]]></description>
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		<title>Memoir Author Finds Drama in Everyday Life</title>
		<link>http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/memoir-interview-lisa-fineberg-cook-pt3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 11:58:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[None of it was easy and what's true is that if I had decided to write the book immediately after returning to the States, it would NOT have been a humorous book, it would have been a much more serious, angst-filled memoir because Japan was incredibly challenging for me, very painful and an enormous growth experience. But again, with time and perspective, humor wins out and I feel like the humor is a way of saying ‘I'm over it. I win.  Japan 0, Lisa 1.']]></description>
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		<title>Memoir Author Offers Writing and Story Insights</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 12:59:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My female friendships are such an integral part of my life and my sanity.  They are my 'other husbands' and they are the ones I call when the laundry basket gets too full and the fridge is empty and my hair is a mess and my kids are driving me crazy.  I can literally call them and just give a good primal scream and they say 'I get it. Say no more.' So I wrote this book for them - the ones I know personally and the ones who I imagine would be my friends if I knew them.  They would get the humor, the ridiculousness, the self-effacing attitude.]]></description>
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		<title>Interview with Memoir Author Lisa Fineberg Cook</title>
		<link>http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/memoir-interview-lisa-fineberg-cook/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2011 12:38:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have never been particularly concerned with hiding flaws.  I think flaws make people more interesting and because I look for humor in just about every situation, flaws can be especially funny. As far as learning things about myself, I think I learn more in reflection than I do in the moment.  I’m usually just trying to figure out how to deal with a situation when I’m in it and then later -- sometimes even months or years later, I’ll look back and think how differently I’d handle that situation now, or how valuable that lesson was and I didn’t even realize it at the time. When I’m learning things about myself after the fact, it seems like useful information to be incorporated rather than a revelation.]]></description>
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		<title>Grace Notes and Self Confidence Tracy Seeley Interview Pt. 5</title>
		<link>http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/memoir-interview-seeley-part-5/</link>
		<comments>http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/memoir-interview-seeley-part-5/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Aug 2011 13:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jerrywaxler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love anecdotes that momentarily seem out of the main line of the story because they remind us that the world is a richly interconnected place, thick with story and meaning even over there in the margins.]]></description>
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