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		<title>Ghost Wrote Her Mother&#8217;s Memoir, Part 3</title>
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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>Grace Notes and Self Confidence Tracy Seeley Interview Pt. 5</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Aug 2011 13:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
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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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		<title>Conversation versus Story Style in Memoir</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Your writing achieved that state that I enjoy: clear, compelling, easy to read, and yet it still evokes thought provoking, sometimes moving images and ideas. During your journey to acquire your language arts, can you think of any particular tip or advice that moved you along, that made your sentences clearer?]]></description>
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		<title>Memoir writer on conforming, rewriting, publishing</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Aug 2011 12:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[
Small presses, too, though, want to know how your book is like others that have gone before (and gone on to succeed), as well as how it's a new and exciting, one-of-a-kind thing.  It's a funny kind of challenge to describe your work in both terms.  But My Ruby Slippers does belong to a tradition of what I call memoirs of place--and I was able to place it in great company.  I think of works like Terry Tempest Williams' Refuge, Kathleen Norris's Dakota, or Joan Didion's Where I Was From.  Didion, by the way, is another great nonfiction writer who isn't worried about fitting the mold.  She thinks a lot on the page.]]></description>
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		<title>Stretching the Memoir Form, Tracy Seeley Interview, Part 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2011 12:09:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The edict to "show, not tell" does a serious disservice to creative nonfiction writers, and to the genre.  It's not the same as fiction, even though it may share many techniques, and it shouldn't be forced to be fiction made out of "true facts."]]></description>
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		<title>I Left my Heart In&#8230; Kansas? Memoir Review Part 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jul 2011 12:25:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Subtly, gently, and almost inevitably, she expands up to another level and asks how Kansas fits into the psychology of the entire nation. Her charter to make peace between these two parts of the country is extremely important to her. Having grown up on the Great Plains and then lived in Connecticut and San Francisco, she now needs to unify these parts of the country in order to find her own peace.]]></description>
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		<title>In your memoir, how does your character grow?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Dec 2010 14:21:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[That requirement for closure at the end of a story often stymies aspiring writers, who can't at first visualize the satisfying ending that occurred during their own lives. They are afraid that if they report the events that actually happened, the reader will not feel particularly informed or uplifted. This question leads to the heart of the memoir genre. Our responsibility as writers is not just to repeat events but to share a creative way of looking at those events. Finding this shape, this wrapper, this satisfying ending is one of our most important challenges.]]></description>
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		<title>Memoir Lessons: Buddies, Endings, and Beyond</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Nov 2010 12:11:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this post, I wrap up the last of the twenty lessons I found in Beth Kephart's "Slant of Sun." I have delved into this enjoyable, well-written book, a process I have grown accustomed to. After reading a memoir, I go back and consider it again. I hope you will do the same. By studying the lessons that other people learned in their School of Hard Knocks, you will gain the skill and courage to offer readers an insider look at your own.]]></description>
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