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Conflicted about American Melting-Pot: Cultural Identity in Memoir
So what happens when you attempt to assimilate into a culture where you feel like an outsider? The dissonance between who you see at home and how you are received out in the world can create internal strife.
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Interview: On Publishing the Memoir Breaking the Code
When I do book events, there is definitely a good deal of teaching and encouraging others to write their own story. I’m passionate about that. We all think we’ll have more time to get our stories, or those of our loved ones, written down. But sadly, for some time runs out. My message is to…
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Turning Dad’s WWII Secrets Into a Memoir, Pt 3
I was also getting encouragement from my critique group. Some of the ladies were little girls during the WWII years and they were a good barometer for how important the information in the letters was. Like everything with this book, the structure developed naturally. Once I’d written maybe 30-pages, I knew it was reading like…
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Birth of a Memoir: Turning Her Father’s Secrets Into a Story
At this point, I wasn’t sure if this was a story I wanted to find a publisher for or if I wanted to simply write it and just have copies printed for my family. But I wasn’t thinking about that much. I just wanted to get it written down in the best form I could.
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Memoir Interview: Breaking into Her Father’s Secrets Pt 1
But once the memories came to the surface, there just wasn’t a way to turn back. Every time I wanted to stop, or my resolve was challenged, something would put me back on track again. Some little step forward would be taken, or a tiny beam of light would shine on a new area.
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Memoir Author Offers Writing and Story Insights
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…
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Interview with Memoir Author Lisa Fineberg Cook
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…
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Interview with Memoir and YA Author Author Beth Kephart
Beth: It all comes back to those themes. I have done all my shaping–all my deciding about what goes in and what stays out, about how much emphasis to put on one thing or another–by standing back and asking myself: Does this scene advance your themes? Often some of the very best stories must be…
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Stephen Markley Interview Part 6: Post-publication blues?
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.
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Stephen Markley Interview Part 4: Structure of a Memoir
by Jerry Waxler The first thing that caught my attention when I picked up Stephen Markley’s “Publish this Book” was that it was a parody of itself, a memoir about “writing this very book.” This trick of self-conscious awareness, or “meta” as it has come to be called, played a big role in my thought…
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