Tag: character development
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Reading error teaches a writing lesson – or – A good character is hard to define
Part of relating to a good story is to feel a personal connection with its characters. Now I need to develop the knack of portraying the people in my life onto the pages in my memoir. I have attended workshops, and read how-to books about this skill, but it has been eluding me until recently…
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Memoir writing lessons from the heart
by Jerry Waxler, author of Memoir Revolution: Write Your Story, Change the World Perry Foster was an ordinary business man until he found himself on the wrong end of a cardiology exam. Now he bears a scar on his torso that looks like it was zipped shut, which makes him a member of the zipper…
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