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	<description>Hundreds of Essays and Interviews to Help You Read and Write Memoirs</description>
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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>Ten Reasons to Read a Memoir About a Man Who Couldn&#8217;t Eat</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jon Reiner's ending is superb and inspiring. He teaches thoughtful lessons and leaves me with the sense that he is a better person than he was at the beginning. When he makes sense of his life, I feel a surge of hope that others can do the same. Good denouements lead to enthusiastic book recommendations.]]></description>
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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. ]]></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.]]></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>Is this the year to write your parent&#8217;s memoir?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 12:57:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[To counter the reasons to stall, focus on the many reasons to proceed. When you see their lives unfold as a story, you will gain a deeper insight into their humanity. They had hopes, desires, pressures from their parents, and if they were like most people, they defied their parents in ways that may still cause shame. Informed by this new information, you will understand them and also gain insights to yourself. And during the course of the conversations, you will have an opportunity for intimacy, breaking through some of the posturing that separates parents from children. ]]></description>
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		<title>Ghost Wrote Her Mother&#8217;s Memoir, Part 3</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 13:07:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Linda Austin: I learned why my mother behaves the way she does, which is one reason why I strongly encourage telling life stories. What happens to us affects who we are and how we behave. Once I cried with my mother while parked in the lot of the Social Security building. She had told me about some incidents with her mother, and suddenly I saw how that affected her own behavior toward me. I so wished I had known this long ago so I would have understood her own foibles and not have been so angry. I felt so bad for not understanding.]]></description>
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		<title>Ghost Wrote Her Mother&#8217;s Memoir, Interview Part 2</title>
		<link>http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/parents-memoir-austin-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 13:12:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My mother liked telling stories and talking about the festivals, but hated being interviewed, and she thought I was crazy for writing about her life. She thought her life was difficult and sad so who'd want to hear about that. She also thought since everyone in Japan had lived through those tough times that her story was nothing special. Her best friend at the time, Frankie, pushed her to get her life written down and actually started typing the stories while I was out of the country for a year. If it weren't for Frankie, there might not be a memoir.]]></description>
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		<title>Parent&#8217;s Memoir: Finding Roots Across Generations</title>
		<link>http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/parents-memoir-austin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 13:05:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is it co-authored or ghost written? Is it a memoir or a biography? These distinctions blur into artistic interpretations rather than hard definitions. When James McBride wrote about his own search for his mother's past in "Color of Water," he stayed inside his own point of view, with occasional well-marked shifts into his mother's voice. In Cherry Blossoms, Linda Austin drops out of the frame and lets her mother tell the story. ]]></description>
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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.]]></description>
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		<title>Interview: Young Adult Fiction versus Coming of Age Memoirs</title>
		<link>http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/interview-marie-lamba-pt1/</link>
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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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