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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>Conflict with Parent Fleshes in Authentic Character</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Dec 2010 11:24:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the most common complaints I hear in a memoir workshop is about the difficulty of writing honest feelings about parents. I encourage writers to push through their reluctance. Writing about them will reveal the relationships in new ways. Even if this material does not appear within the frame of your proposed story, you may find a wealth of material that can help you flesh in your own character, and sharpen your understanding of the conflicts that drive you later in life. <a href="http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/conflict-parent-fleshes-in-authentic-psychological-portrait/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>This celebrity has flaws. How about you?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Dec 2010 13:40:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Agassi became the best tennis player in the world, but it was never enough. Even with his money, his fame, and his supermodel wife, his dissatisfaction always left him sour. Talk about ungrateful! This guy was beginning to sound like a real jerk.  <a href="http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/celebrity-flaws/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Protagonist of a Memoir Must have a Goal and Obstacles</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Dec 2010 13:55:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the fundamental elements in every story is the reader's identification with the protagonist. This protagonist doesn't just stand there. He or she wants something, and then moves toward it, while we readers turn pages to overcome the obstacles. In Andre Agassi's "Open" the pressure to push against obstacles generates enormous tension that makes the story move like a novel.  <a href="http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/protagonist-goal-obstacles/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>When is a memoir by a celebrity not a celebrity memoir?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Nov 2010 13:32:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Andre Agassi was one of the greatest tennis players of all time, and he was married to supermodel Brooke Shields. So it would be natural to expect his memoir, "Open," to be just another celebrity memoir, taking a free ride on his household name. But Agassi's memoir was not a vapid look at the privileged life of a star. Instead the tennis player and his ghost-writer J.R. Moehringer, author of the memoir "Tender Bar," converted a lifetime into a good story, filled with emotional insight.
 <a href="http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/celebrity-memoir-not/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Let us now praise those who serve – a new way to earn fame</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 13:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wish we could base our collective admiration on qualities that run deeper. And I believe this is exactly the role memoirs could serve. Whether or not I knew the author before I started reading a memoir, by the time I finish, I feel we have grown closer, like traveling companions who have shared many miles. <a href="http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/serve-earns-fame/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Memoir by Celebrity Joan Rivers Offers Lessons for Aspiring Writers</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 11:28:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The road to success is littered with the dead acts and fatigued performers who have given up before making it through the gauntlet. And that's exactly what makes Rivers and Martin so interesting, so informative, and in the end so famous - their relentless pursuit of unique excellence and their refusal to follow the herd. <a href="http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/joan-rivers-celebrity-memoir/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<itunes:summary>The road to success is littered with the dead acts and fatigued performers who have given up before making it through the gauntlet. And that's exactly what makes Rivers and Martin so interesting, so informative, and in the end so famous - their relentless pursuit of unique excellence and their refusal to follow the herd.</itunes:summary>
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		<title>Celebrity Lessons for Writers</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 11:06:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jerrywaxler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Furthermore, famous people exert enormous power in our culture, and unless I break down and read their memoirs, I'm going to remain ignorant about them. So when an online friend suggested that Steve Martin's "Born Standing Up" was authentic and introspective I decided to give it a try. It turned out to be an excellent book about a boy's climb from ordinary childhood to international fame. <a href="http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/celebrity-fame-tenacity-writers/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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