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		<description><![CDATA[For me, the best way to recollect the details of past events is to submerge myself in sensory imagery. For example, say I want to write about a birthday party in sixth grade.  Maybe I remember some broad brushstrokes of the party but can't recall as many details as I'd like.  In order to do so, I begin by asking myself the following: what did the birthday party sound like, taste like, feel like, look like, smell like? <a href="http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/silverman-interview-pt2/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Author Sue William Silverman Talks About Confessions, Memoirs, and the Craft of Writing</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Silverman is a careful thinker, picking apart the process of memoir writing, intensely studying each part, and then not merely putting them back together but, showing the reader how to do it, too. I am impressed by the generosity with which she offers advice, insight, and enthusiasm. I love her treatment of metaphor, her thoughts about confession, and the excellent explanation of the difference between memoir and autobiography. <a href="http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/silverman-interview-pt1/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Fearlessly Confessing the Dark Side of Memory in this Memoir of Sexual Abuse</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some dark memories are so compelling they draw you in and frighten or upset you. If you try to seal them back in their crypt, they remain squirming in the dark. Or you can face them fearlessly, and stay with them until you can shape them into a story. By using your words to describe them, instead of someone else's, you take away their power. <a href="http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/memoir-sexual-abuse/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[This book demonstrates the power of persistence. By crafting the story until she got it right, Linda Joy Myers discovered amidst the wreckage of that little girl's childhood an intact human being, complete with courage, confidence, and dreams. Storytelling transformed her heartbreaking childhood into one stage in a much longer saga. Her suffering and then her healing provide both a tragedy and an inspiration about the wisdom a human can achieve in one life time. <a href="http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/mothers-daughter-abandonment/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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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. <a href="http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/memoir-author-talks-about-writing-sharing-and-healing/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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