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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>Relationship between Fiction and Memoir, Interview Pt2</title>
		<link>http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/interview-marie-lamba-pt2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 13:53:41 +0000</pubDate>
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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. <a href="http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/interview-marie-lamba-pt2/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></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. <a href="http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/interview-marie-lamba-pt1/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>A novelist comes alive in a memoir, or is it the other way around?</title>
		<link>http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/novelist-memoir-interview/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2011 13:47:21 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Rick Skwiot]]></category>
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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. <a href="http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/novelist-memoir-interview/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></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.  <a href="http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/rick-skwiot-part-3/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></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.  <a href="http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/journals-into-memoirs/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Two Types of Trainings in Your Memoir</title>
		<link>http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/memoir-training-war-peace/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Dec 2010 13:07:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jerrywaxler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To become proficient as a tennis champ, Agassi relied heavily on sport trainers. In his description of his training, Agassi offers us a bonus, demonstrating the distinction between two fundamental types of training. One type could be called "weapons training" relevant for battle. In his case, the battle was tennis. The other form of training was his ordinary schooling, which was supposed to teach him how to live in peacetime, if he had stuck with it. His struggle to balance these two types of training became a key dramatic tension in his memoir. <a href="http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/memoir-training-war-peace/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Myths Suggest a Universal Template for Memoirs</title>
		<link>http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/myths-template-memoirs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Dec 2010 13:18:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jerrywaxler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some of these mythmaking devices looks fanciful, completely disconnected from real life. And yet, with a little imagination, you can see how these techniques might highlight subtle aspects of your own story. To illustrate how this works, I will point out echoes of these mythological structures, suggested by Andre Agassi's memoir "Open," and then offer suggestions about how you can use them yourself. <a href="http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/myths-template-memoirs/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Who Am I? 10 ways memoir reading and writing helps clarify identity</title>
		<link>http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/self-concept-coming-of-age/</link>
		<comments>http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/self-concept-coming-of-age/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Sep 2010 12:09:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jerrywaxler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Memoirs about Coming of Age explore the period when a young person tries to understand who they are supposed to become. First they learn about themselves from parents, siblings, neighbors, and friends. Then they crawl, stumble, and race in various directions, until they finally find ground firm enough to support their weight. Here are several Coming of Age memoirs that have shown me how other people did it. <a href="http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/self-concept-coming-of-age/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>How Boys Become Men? (Hint: Memoirs Help)</title>
		<link>http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/boys-to-men/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 12:25:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jerrywaxler</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/?p=877</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The big surprise was how much I was learning about boys. The more I read about other boys growing up, the more I began to see that growing up male has challenges that I had never before tried to put into words. After reading about Ed Husain's experience trying to overthrow all of Western civilization, and reflecting on my own rebellion, I took another look at boys.  <a href="http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/boys-to-men/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Memoirs Show Two Sides of the Islamic Revolution</title>
		<link>http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/memoirs-show-two-sides-of-the-islamic-revolution/</link>
		<comments>http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/memoirs-show-two-sides-of-the-islamic-revolution/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2010 11:26:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jerrywaxler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Their goal was to overthrow Westernized governments and create the kind of world God intended, one all-encompassing Islamic state. At first, Husain's loyalty was torn between his parents and his new friends. Gradually he aligned with his activist peers, fighting against Western values such as freedom and democracy. <a href="http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/memoirs-show-two-sides-of-the-islamic-revolution/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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