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		<title>Answering Parents&#8217; Objections to Writing Their Memoir</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Beneath the smiles in those photos were more complex, ambiguous feelings. Writing awakens that complexity. Perhaps fear of writing about the past is a way to try to resist the pain that might be lurking under the surface. If your parents are attempting to make hard times disappear by pretending they never happened, their strategy cannot possibly succeed. Burying emotional pain is like burying toxic waste. When it emerges from its hiding place, it is still poisonous. By writing about it, you can, help them disarm it and find embedded lessons, forgotten friendships, and the strength that carried them through. <a href="http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/parent-ghost-write-pt2/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Is this the year to write your parent&#8217;s memoir?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[To counter the reasons to stall, focus on the many reasons to proceed. When you see their lives unfold as a story, you will gain a deeper insight into their humanity. They had hopes, desires, pressures from their parents, and if they were like most people, they defied their parents in ways that may still cause shame. Informed by this new information, you will understand them and also gain insights to yourself. And during the course of the conversations, you will have an opportunity for intimacy, breaking through some of the posturing that separates parents from children.  <a href="http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/parent-ghost-write/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>How to write a profile</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I acquired items for my list in a variety of ways. Some I experienced myself. Others I learned by watching students in my workshops or groups. And some I speculated must be true. For example, I assumed that after I told my own story, I would gain the skills to write other people's stories, as well. The benefit seemed self-evident, but I was not yet ready to test it. <a href="http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/how-to-write-a-profile/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Your Autobiography is the First Step Towards Writing Your Memoir</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[But I don't feel done. I want to take the next step and share my life with others. The problem is that readers don't want a compendium of my entire life. They want a Story - that is, a dramatic form that we all have learned since we were children. My life does not by itself contain this form. To engage readers, I must find it. <a href="http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/autobiography-step-memoir/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Seeing History Through The Eyes of One Man</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ji Chaozuh's memoir offers a crash course in the history of modern China, provided through the eyes of a man who was in the thick of it. Ji was an English translator for the two main characters of Communist China, Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai. Ji Chaozhu was present during some of the most powerful diplomatic exchanges in the twentieth century. <a href="http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/review-memoir-mao-chaozuh/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Bookstores provide valuable information for memoir writers</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 12:16:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Jerry Waxler According to successful author, Jonathan Maberry, from whom I have taken many writing courses, &#8220;despite the power of online marketing, bookstores still provide vital information to any writer who wants to get their work into print. By &#8230; <a href="http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/bookstores-provide-valuable-information-memoir-writers/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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