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		<title>Relationship between Fiction and Memoir, Interview Pt2</title>
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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: Young Adult Fiction versus Coming of Age Memoirs</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 13:08:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Marie Lamba's novel "Over My Head" was described by New York Times best-selling author Jonathan Maberry as "a funny, touching, and at times heart-breaking young adult novel about the search for love." She is also author of the young adult novel "What I Meant..." (Random House), which was dubbed "an impressive debut" by Publisher's Weekly.]]></description>
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		<title>Million Dollar Challenge: YA fiction is Coming of Age</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 13:34:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The close connection between the fiction and nonfiction version of young adulthood seems to contain important information for all aspiring writers. To research the connection between fiction and real life, I recently read a Young Adult novel, "Over My Head" by Marie Lamba. The protagonist is a 16-year old girl who fell in love with a 20-year old boy. The protagonist desperately wanted to overcome her parents' objections. In her struggle for clarity, I learned about young love from a girl's point of view. I also learned a much broader lesson. In "Over My Head" I saw the underlying power of both Coming of Age memoirs and Young Adult fiction.  ]]></description>
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		<title>Another way to write about childhood, memoir review Part 1</title>
		<link>http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/ruby-slippers-review-pt1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jul 2011 11:35:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tracy Seeley's memoir, "Ruby Slippers" reminds me of "Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls. In both books, restless parents failed to deliver a safe, stable environment. After each author grew up and settled down, she returned to her chaotic beginnings and tried to knit together the pieces by finding the story.]]></description>
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		<title>Publish This Book: The Unbelievable True Story of How I Wrote, Sold and Published This Very Book by Stephen Markley</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 10:25:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[And finally, I imagine college kids themselves would appreciate it. After all, Markley recently emerged from those hallowed halls himself. If I was that age, I would be interested in knowing what to expect. I looked on Amazon to see what other readers thought. Several reviewers liked it as much as I did. The reviews were sort of "positive flames" ranting about how great the book is.
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		<title>Why Coming of Age Memoirs ought to be a genre</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 12:48:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jerrywaxler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[But memoirs reveal more than secrets. They also reveal wisdom. In our younger years, we lacked the sophisticated thinking that would have let us make sense of what was going on. When we return to take another look, we identify the causes that tied it all together. ]]></description>
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		<title>How These Memoir Authors Emerged Into Adulthood</title>
		<link>http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/examples-emerging-adult/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:15:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jerrywaxler</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Book Review]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the following list of memoirs, I show a number of examples of how memoir authors experienced this complex transition from childhood into adulthood. By seeing how this period contained so much dramatic tension for these authors, you may gain some insight into the dramatic tension of your own transition into adulthood.]]></description>
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		<title>Failure to Launch Generates  Dramatic Tension</title>
		<link>http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/failure-to-launch-generates-dramatic-tension/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:18:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jerrywaxler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Emerging into adulthood is sometimes dubbed "launching," a term that reminds me of a woman in a fur coat smashing a bottle across the bow of a ship being sent to sea on its maiden voyage. My launching did not include getting hit with a bottle of champagne, but I was hit with other substances which contributed to my loss of focus.]]></description>
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		<title>Princeton Student transfers to the School of Hard Knocks or Learning Kung Fu at the Shaolin Temple</title>
		<link>http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/shaolin-kungfu-princeto/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:36:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jerrywaxler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently, I saw a memoir "American Shaolin" by Matthew Polly, a young man who dropped out of Princeton to study Kung Fu at the Shaolin Temple in China. I was stunned to learn the place was real and even more astonished that it still existed. At first I resisted reading the book, afraid the real world might ruin my fantasies. Finally curiosity won. I jumped in to "American Shaolin" and kept turning pages to the end.]]></description>
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		<title>Color of Water, a memoir of race, family and fabulous writing</title>
		<link>http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/color-water-mcbride/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 11:49:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jerrywaxler</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Black Culture]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[To write for strangers we're supposed to limit ourselves to tighter timelines that focus on one particular aspect or period. Despite the broader scope of "Color of Water," the book was fabulously successful, selling more than a million copies. How did this apparent autobiography earn such a prominent position as a highly acclaimed memoir?]]></description>
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