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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>Dani Shapiro Seeks Spiritual Meaning through Memoirs</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jun 2011 11:50:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now, Dani Shapiro's second memoir "Devotion," provides a fascinating sequel. Starting decades after the happy ending of her first, she describes her journey into adulthood. "Devotion" is not so much about becoming an adult as it is about making sense of life's scary setbacks.  <a href="http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/dani-shapiro-seeks-spiritual-meaning-through-memoirs/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Spiritual memoirs, interview with author Rick Skwiot</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jan 2011 13:14:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[His quest was somewhere between the fast living of Henry Miller and the soul searching of Somerset Maugham, and contained some of the elements of my own travels. It's too late to interview Maugham, Miller, or the other world travelers who haunted my imagination during my formative years. But Rick Swiot is alive and willing to talk about the writing of "San Miguel Allende.". Here is the first of several parts of an interview in which I ask him about writing the memoir. <a href="http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/spiritual-memoir-skwiot-1/">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>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Apr 2010 11:53:58 +0000</pubDate>
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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>Memoir interview about privacy, activism, style</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I hope the book does inspire people to, most of all, learn more about their environment, and from that learning, develop a greater connection with their local land, which will naturally lead to the kind of advocacy and stewardship that creates enduring ecological change. I also hope the book helps people see not just more of the connections between cancer and ecological degradation and destruction, but between healing and finding kinship with the trees, fields, birds, skies and other aspects of our homes around us. <a href="http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/memoir-interview-mirriam-goldberg-2/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Memoir author speaks of spirituality, religion, and cancer</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think it's far more effective to describe the big stuff of life -- spiritual struggles, traumas and wounds, giant yearnings or losses -- by entering through the backdoor. By that, I mean you can convey the depth of what you're writing by aiming toward specific detail and specific moments instead of making pronouncements about what it all means. <a href="http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/memoir-spirituality-cancer/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Lessons memoir writers can learn from Zombies</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2008 11:30:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My goal is remarkably similar to Jonathan Maberry's. We both want to tell a good story. So I keep listening to this thriller writer and keep learning lessons about the relationship between life and story. For example, in a previous discussion he told me that flaws in real people prepare him to write deeper characterization in his novels. <a href="http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/writing-lessons-zombies/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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