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		<title>Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Children are not the only beginners. Adults often find themselves starting over. Will readers cheer for older beginners, the way they do for young ones? David Berner's memoir suggests that the answer is "yes." His place at the bottom of the totem pole contrasts sharply with his success in broadcasting. And yet, as he bumbles along, trying to figure out how to make a positive impact on these kids, it is easy for me to cheer him on. I turn the pages, thinking, "Please grow." "Please learn." <a href="http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/second-chance-career/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Two memoirs that teach</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[While both of these books serve the purpose of teaching books, they are also memoirs, based on personal experience. As I try to tease out what they are doing, reading these memoirs like a memoir writer, I look more closely at how they have harnessed life story to keep the reader's attention. How are these personal stories like memoirs embedded in a context of knowledge? <a href="http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/two-memoirs-that-teach/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Why memoirs are becoming so popular</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Sep 2007 11:21:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Jerry Waxler Carol O&#8217;Dell has never been in headlines. She was an ordinary woman raising a family when her mom&#8217;s mind started failing. When O&#8217;Dell asked her mother to move in, their relationship became laced with the humiliation and &#8230; <a href="http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/why-memoirs-are-becoming-so-popular/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Myths and Memoirs &#8211; am I a victim?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many people who have been elevated throughout history from victim to hero were used in this symbolic way to represent their group. The murderers hated the group and used the victim as a symbol, and the admirers showed love for this victim, and rallied around in order to strengthen their identity and defy the murderers. <a href="http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/myths-and-memoirs-%e2%80%93-am-i-a-victim/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Foster Winans says &#8220;Use context when writing memoir&#8221;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In fact, this attention to the way Fosterâ€™s world worked is a good reason for aspiring writers to read his memoir. I highly recommend Trading Secrets, as a perfect example of how a memoirist can employ the events in the world around him to drive the story forward. <a href="http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/foster-winans-says-use-context-when-writing-memoir/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Writing Conference: Tip for Memoirists &#8211; Use myth to find story</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Journalists are supposed to just write what they see. Right? But Lule started noticing some news caught fire, and some didn't. He began looking for the reason for this difference, and he realized that when a story just conveys information, it does not generate energy. The stories that have the most energy are organized as a story, not as "information." <a href="http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/writing-conference-tip-for-memoirists-use-myth-to-find-story/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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