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		<title>Parent&#8217;s Memoir Part 3b, Guide for Ghost Writer&#8217;s Interview</title>
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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. ]]></description>
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		<title>Parent&#8217;s Memoir Part 3a, Guiding a Ghost Writer&#8217;s Interview</title>
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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.]]></description>
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		<title>Answering Parents&#8217; Objections to Writing Their Memoir</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 13:28:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Beneath the smiles in those photos were more complex, ambiguous feelings. Writing awakens that complexity. Perhaps fear of writing about the past is a way to try to resist the pain that might be lurking under the surface. If your parents are attempting to make hard times disappear by pretending they never happened, their strategy cannot possibly succeed. Burying emotional pain is like burying toxic waste. When it emerges from its hiding place, it is still poisonous. By writing about it, you can, help them disarm it and find embedded lessons, forgotten friendships, and the strength that carried them through.]]></description>
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		<title>Relationship between Fiction and Memoir, Interview Pt2</title>
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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.]]></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.]]></description>
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		<title>Memoir Author Offers Writing and Story Insights</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 12:59:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My female friendships are such an integral part of my life and my sanity.  They are my 'other husbands' and they are the ones I call when the laundry basket gets too full and the fridge is empty and my hair is a mess and my kids are driving me crazy.  I can literally call them and just give a good primal scream and they say 'I get it. Say no more.' So I wrote this book for them - the ones I know personally and the ones who I imagine would be my friends if I knew them.  They would get the humor, the ridiculousness, the self-effacing attitude.]]></description>
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		<title>Interview with Memoir Author Lisa Fineberg Cook</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2011 12:38:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have never been particularly concerned with hiding flaws.  I think flaws make people more interesting and because I look for humor in just about every situation, flaws can be especially funny. As far as learning things about myself, I think I learn more in reflection than I do in the moment.  I’m usually just trying to figure out how to deal with a situation when I’m in it and then later -- sometimes even months or years later, I’ll look back and think how differently I’d handle that situation now, or how valuable that lesson was and I didn’t even realize it at the time. When I’m learning things about myself after the fact, it seems like useful information to be incorporated rather than a revelation.]]></description>
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		<title>Grace Notes and Self Confidence Tracy Seeley Interview Pt. 5</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Aug 2011 13:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love anecdotes that momentarily seem out of the main line of the story because they remind us that the world is a richly interconnected place, thick with story and meaning even over there in the margins.]]></description>
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		<title>Conversation versus Story Style in Memoir</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Aug 2011 11:42:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Your writing achieved that state that I enjoy: clear, compelling, easy to read, and yet it still evokes thought provoking, sometimes moving images and ideas. During your journey to acquire your language arts, can you think of any particular tip or advice that moved you along, that made your sentences clearer?]]></description>
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		<title>Memoir writer on conforming, rewriting, publishing</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Aug 2011 12:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[
Small presses, too, though, want to know how your book is like others that have gone before (and gone on to succeed), as well as how it's a new and exciting, one-of-a-kind thing.  It's a funny kind of challenge to describe your work in both terms.  But My Ruby Slippers does belong to a tradition of what I call memoirs of place--and I was able to place it in great company.  I think of works like Terry Tempest Williams' Refuge, Kathleen Norris's Dakota, or Joan Didion's Where I Was From.  Didion, by the way, is another great nonfiction writer who isn't worried about fitting the mold.  She thinks a lot on the page.]]></description>
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