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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>Interview with Susan Weidener About Memoir Workshops Pt 4</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2012 11:59:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The women find themselves writing about things that had "gathered cobwebs" over the years.  Once they put pen to paper and write it, the power of that memory or that time in their lives to hurt and cause anguish is taken away.  Afterwards, they tell me they feel at peace with it.  I’m not a therapist, but I can see they feel empowered.  So the writing is a way to heal, a way to make sense of our lives.  <a href="http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/interview-with-susan-weidener-about-memoir-workshops-pt-4/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Interview with Susan Weidener About Writing Her Memoir Pt 3</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2012 11:23:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ I was intrigued by self-publishing. It is very exciting. You own the copyright to your work; royalties are a lot higher than through a traditional publisher because you take the risk.  As a deadline-oriented person, I felt it was crucial to know the book would be published and not get stuffed in a drawer.  I also wanted the book as a way to encourage others to think about writing their stories. <a href="http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/interview-susan-weidener-pt3/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Interview with Susan Weidener About Writing Her Memoir Pt 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Mar 2012 11:53:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wrote at least eight drafts before I was satisfied with the final version. I gave a copy of the completed manuscript to a former colleague from The Philadelphia Inquirer and to a family therapist.  Both provided additional editing and copy editing.  Of course, I edit manuscripts myself, but there is no way you can edit your own work.  You need an objective person, a professional. <a href="http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/interview-susan-weidener-pt2/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Interview with Memoir Author Susan Weidener About Honesty</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2012 12:27:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By accepting my flaws, I found a place of healing.  Why wasn’t I kinder to him at the end of his life?  That question haunted me for years.  As I wrote my memoir, I began to see how almost anyone would have reacted much like I did when confronting the loss of their dreams, the person they loved more than any other.  Chronic illness affects an entire family, not just the person going through it.  Our society has a very difficult time dealing with death.  One of my hopes with Again in a Heartbeat is that showing my imperfections and what I went through as John’s illness progressed and he pulled away from me, helps others in similar situations be kinder and more forgiving to themselves. <a href="http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/interview-susan-weidener-pt1/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Make sense of loss: Grieving in Memoirs</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jun 2011 11:49:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[To turn this sequence into a continuous narrative, we look for lessons from other authors who have done the same thing. Here are several examples of memoirs that describe the journey of grief. Each book demonstrates how to collect the upheavals of life into the container of a story. <a href="http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/grieving-in-memoirs/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Revealing Death and Other Courageous Acts of Life</title>
		<link>http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/two-waxler-workshop/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 May 2011 11:38:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jerrywaxler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Then it was my job to turn the audience's attention back to their own goals. I realized there wasn't enough time to conduct a real workshop, but in the small amount of time available, I wanted to convince everyone that the problems of writing a memoir are solvable. "When you look back through your memories, they fly out at you in a variety of bits and pieces, entangled in time, and at first only make sense to you. As you write scenes and accumulate them in sequence, they begin to take shape. As you see the material of your life take shape on the page, you gradually tame the flood of memories and begin to craft them into a story worth reading." <a href="http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/two-waxler-workshop/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Courage to Write, Passion to Read</title>
		<link>http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/courage-walk-review/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2010 11:50:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jerrywaxler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Before I even purchased the book, I knew from the blurb that the author was an English Literature professor at the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth. I knew that "Courage to Walk," was about the crippling and potentially deadly illness of a second son, and I knew about the death of Robert and Linda's oldest son, Jonathan.  <a href="http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/courage-walk-review/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Interview about crossing from academic to popular writing</title>
		<link>http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/interview-academic-popular-writing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jun 2010 10:53:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jerrywaxler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Robert: Some of my writing has been what could be called " academic" in this context. Especially academic journal  articles, etc.  But I have always liked to think of myself as a "public" person in this regard. Much of my work has been out in the community, trying to convince people that reading and discussing literature is a worthwhile activity, perhaps one of the more important ways to keep us human.  <a href="http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/interview-academic-popular-writing/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>A memoir of mourning helps make sense of loss</title>
		<link>http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/memoir-mourning-son/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2010 10:27:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jerrywaxler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now I realize after reading "Losing Jonathan" that I loved the Waxlers' memoir for similar reasons. Like Kate Braestrup they were on a quest to wrest their sanity back from the abyss. At first they were thirsty for support from their community. Then, after five years, Linda suggested, "We should try to write a book. It would be a way of honoring Jonathan's life. Sustaining it." The suggestion reflected Linda's desire now to give back to the community some of the strength they had given her. And the vehicle for their gift was a book. <a href="http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/memoir-mourning-son/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Catch-up grief: how visiting my brother helped me grow</title>
		<link>http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/grief-brother-grow/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 11:13:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jerrywaxler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I write my memoir, these 32 years later, I discover the gaping hole his death created, as if I was postponing my grief until I was mature enough to better understand what happened. I now watch our relationship unfold in slow motion, and this time I intend to learn as much as possible about what happened and what I missed. <a href="http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/grief-brother-grow/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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