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	<itunes:summary>Record the Stories of Your Life, tips, how-to, memoir book reviews, by Jerry Waxler</itunes:summary>
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		<title>A Memoir Author Comments on His Beginning and End</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jul 2011 11:12:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I hope the reader would finish the book with the belief that although our past may be gone through the passage of time, it has left an indelible mark, a branding on all of us. And we should not dismiss it even when it's painful or troubling; we should embrace it, use it to our advantage, and savor it until it becomes a memory that can be used as fuel to move us along in our lives. My mother always used to say, "It's not what happens to you, it is how you deal with what happens to you." I think that message comes through in Accidental Lessons. ]]></description>
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		<title>On Writing a memoir, interview with author David W. Berner</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[David W. Berner changed directions in mid-life, and became a teacher. Then he wrote a memoir "Accidental Lessons" about how his second chance gave him a deeper appreciation for life than his first. The book is an important one for anyone who is attempting to reinvent themselves in order to keep up with changes in external circumstances or in their own goals. This is part one in my interview with him about writing the memoir.]]></description>
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		<title>Character Development of a Novel’s Hero</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Mar 2011 13:14:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You both went from incomplete people to much more aware and fulfilled people by working in the bakery. As a reader, I love this inner arc, which shows your character’s personal development. This is one of the reasons I read memoirs, to see how people grow, and I’m glad you reflected that part of your life in the novel.]]></description>
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		<title>A Novelist Plays at the Border of Fact and Fiction</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Feb 2011 12:51:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I've always said my career as a novelist began in a bakery, which seems appropriate, because the longer I practice both writing and baking the more similarities I see between them.  Bread is a process--slow, arduous, messy, unpredictable.  You can say all the same things about a book.  Bread is composed of distinct ingredients, that merge and become dough--a completely different entity which then takes on a life of its own.  A book follows that same process.]]></description>
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		<title>A novelist comes alive in a memoir, or is it the other way around?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2011 13:47:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Life is struggle, for everyone, and those who have the inner resources and high spirits to fight on in the face of great adversity are those we most admire. Like you, I want to hear their stories, not the stories of quitters, pessimists and whiners. The protagonists don't have to succeed in reaching their goals, but they have to strive with great heart. When we read these stories, we see it is the struggle that ennobles us and the thing that matters most.]]></description>
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		<title>A Memoirist Talks About the Backstory of His Memoir</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Feb 2011 13:01:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don't think I consciously crafted a self-portrait here. I was just trying to report on this guy who went to Mexico and found himself, and how that came about. For most any memoirist, there are two first-person characters: the author/narrator who is writing it and the historical character who experienced the events in the book's scenes. ]]></description>
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		<title>Turning Journals and Notebooks Into a Memoir</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Jan 2011 12:32:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rick Skwiot: My journals were crucial in my development as a writer. Not only did I record events of my life, but I also, as you suggest, wrote fictional scenes there, experimented with writing styles, penned criticism on the books I was reading, recorded my dreams and more. It was a mishmash of fact and fiction that would likely misinform and mislead any reader other than myself. My journals were a cauldron from which a writer emerged, finally. ]]></description>
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		<title>Memoir Interview with Matthew Polly Author of &#8220;American Shaolin&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 12:10:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It's the old saying: "tragedy plus time equals comedy." It was ten years later. And it was hard to feel sorry for myself when so many good things came out of the sacrifice. For one, I was a stronger and more interesting person. For two, I won the Rhodes scholarship almost solely on the strength of the trip. (My grades weren't that great.) If I had written the book right after my return as I tried and failed to do, there probably would have been much more "feel sorry for me" to it.]]></description>
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		<title>Author Interview: Curtis Smith talks about publishing in Literary Journals</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 13:18:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At this year's Philadelphia Stories  Push to Publish conference,  Curtis Smith played an important role, by throwing in a few choice comments about how much fun writing is. (To read more about his comments, click here ). One of the parts of writing that seemed to be working especially well for Curtis was his regular publication in literary journals. Since he was getting so much satisfaction from that aspect of his craft, I asked him to share some tips and pointers with the rest of us. Our interview follows:]]></description>
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		<title>Memoir author talks about writing, sharing, and healing</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 09:58:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jerrywaxler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bill Strickland's memoir, "Ten Points," weaves together three things: a promise he made to his daughter, a summer of cycling to fulfill that promise, and his insights into the wounds of his own childhood. To learn more about his experience of digging so deeply into his past and then sharing it with the public, I asked Bill Strickland to answer a few questions about writing and publishing his memoir. Here is the second part of the interview I conducted with him.]]></description>
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