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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>Parent&#8217;s Memoir Part 3b, Guide for Ghost Writer&#8217;s Interview</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 12:30:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the years, you have learned to avoid topics your parents prefer not talking about. In order to get the story,  you need to break these taboos. Consider James McBride's memoir "Color of Water." His mother had angrily told him to mind his own business whenever he asked her about his past. As she grew older, he realized her past was going to die with her and he grew increasingly insistent.  <a href="http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/parent-ghost-write-pt3/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Parent&#8217;s Memoir Part 3a, Guiding a Ghost Writer&#8217;s Interview</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 12:27:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If your interviewee tends to speak in terms of ideas, summaries, and overviews, their memories won't allow a reader inside their experience. To write compelling scenes, ask for more sensory information, dialog, and thought processes. "What did you see, hear, taste, touch and smell?" In addition to the senses, ask them about their introspective world. <a href="http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/parent-ghost-write-pt3a/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Memoir Lessons: Mysteries of emerging consciousness</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Oct 2010 12:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jeremy was using his words to explain his actions, and that’s what memoir writers do, too. Your whole memoir is an attempt to describe how your life works, from inside your point of view. <a href="http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/lessons-memoir-consciousness/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Lessons 4-5 from Beth Kephart’s Memoir, Slant of Sun</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Oct 2010 11:19:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pick a scene, and instead of jumping right to the outcome, build up to it. Remember how you felt while you were still worried, still anticipating. Did you discuss your fears with other people, or muse about the possibilities? Pause, anticipate, feel heart racing. Note the tension. Let my heart pound, too. <a href="http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/lessons-memoir-4-5/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Use this memoir as a study guide: lessons 1 to 3</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Oct 2010 12:53:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Her journey to help her son enter the game of life abounds with courage, psychological sleuthing, and love. It is a warm coming of age story of two people: Jeremy's development into childhood, and his mother's maturity as the shepherd of her son. I learned so much from reading the book that I think it would make an excellent self-study or teacher-led training manual for memoir writers. In this and the following posts, I share 20 lessons I learned from the book, and offer suggestions about how you can apply these ideas to your own memoir. <a href="http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/memoir-study-guide-lessons-1/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Stephen Markley Interview Part 6: Post-publication blues?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Aug 2010 11:19:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ It's really rare to get an opportunity like this: to be young and single and unattached and constantly inspired and ferociously hungry. There aren't enough hours in the day to get every idea I have onto paper. I sometimes blink and wonder if all this has actually happened for me.  <a href="http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/markley-interview-part-6/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>How to write a profile</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jun 2010 12:43:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jerrywaxler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I acquired items for my list in a variety of ways. Some I experienced myself. Others I learned by watching students in my workshops or groups. And some I speculated must be true. For example, I assumed that after I told my own story, I would gain the skills to write other people's stories, as well. The benefit seemed self-evident, but I was not yet ready to test it. <a href="http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/how-to-write-a-profile/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Fear of publishing: Try these ten (more) tips to increase courage</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Apr 2010 12:27:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jerrywaxler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While much has been written about how to market your book, there is relatively little guidance for the emotional struggle. Because I have had to cope with my own social anxiety, I have been studying this issue for years, reading self-help books, and incorporating lessons from my formal training in counseling psychology, and trying the strategies myself. In addition, I have listened and learned from other writers who have struggled with their own variations on these challenges. <a href="http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/fear-publish-ten-more-tips/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Learn the inner and outer dimensions of memoir writing</title>
		<link>http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/power-memoir-review/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Apr 2010 11:53:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jerrywaxler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[And then, Linda Joy goes beyond craft and turns inward towards the heart of the matter. As a professional psychotherapist, Linda Joy helps her clients work through their memories. In this book, she performs a similar service for aspiring memoir writers. In hefty, substantive chapters like "Psychology of Memoir Writing," "The Dark Stuff," and "The Power of Writing to Heal" Linda Joy provides excellent guidance to help you decipher your memories and bring them to the page. <a href="http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/power-memoir-review/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>A leader of memoir writers tells her own story</title>
		<link>http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/interview-linda-joy-myers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Mar 2010 12:07:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jerrywaxler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I studied literature it seemed so obvious to me that writing had a psychological component, but in the lit classes this was almost never acknowledged. I'd always thought I wanted to bring the two together somehow, but for a long time couldn't see how to do it. I kept working on my own writing, and then the studies by Dr. Pennebaker and others were published. After I discovered that exciting research, I had a sense of how to integrate my version of healing and psychology with writing--through writing healing stories. <a href="http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/interview-linda-joy-myers/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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